A Coast human rights organisation has called for the arrest and prosecution of the cold blood killer police who murdered a 14-year-old girl in Kwale county last week.
The organization, Haki Africa also criticised attempts by the Police Inspector General David Kimaiyo to cover-up and protect the brutal killers of Kwekwe Mwandaza.
The group's Executive director Hussein Khalid said the organisation will lobby residents to demonstrate against the killing if no action is taken.
“At the Coast, extra judicial killings happen at an alarming rate. The police kill whoever they want and make up stories, which is then presented to the public without verification,” Khalid said.
Mwandaza was killed by police who raided their home allegedly looking for his uncle, George Zani, who police accuse of engaging in criminal activities.
Kinango deputy county commissioner Moses Ivuto claimed Mwandza was shot dead after she confronted the police officers with a machete. It is however not clear how a 14 year old girl could have overpowered heavily armed police or if the police were sober when they murdered the girl.
Umazi Zani, the murdered girl's mother, said her daughter was sleeping with her two other young cousins in the house when police broke in and shot at her multiple times at close range after throwing tear gas canisters into the room.
“She was shot from a close range after they missed the person they were looking for,” she said in Mombasa.
Meanwhile, Muslim for Human Rights officer in Kinango, Abdulrahman Mwangoka, said he has been threatened by police for protesting Mwandaza's killing. Mwangoka said unknown people went looking for him at his house during late hours on Sunday.
Muhuri deputy executive director Rahma Gulam yesterday said they have transferred Mwangoka from Kwale to a safe house until the matter was resolved.
“Unknown people have been calling him. Security officers have also threatened to abandon the minor’s case and deal with whoever involves himself in that matter,” he said.
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