Police allegedly kill Nyeri mason in family farm

Residents of Mukurweini, Nyeri, are calling for justice over what they term as extrajudicial killing of a 30-year-old mason.

The residents on Sunday held a protest march, waving twigs and chanting anti-police slogans, after the deceased, King’ori Kanyi was found dead with bullet wounds in the family’s coffee plantation.

Residents tried to block police from retrieving the body, demanding to be addressed by area police boss Beatrice Kimoning.

The locals later stormed the Mukurweini Sub-county Hospital mortuary and removed the body, before medics calmed them down.

They then marched to the Mukurweini police station demanding the arrest of three police officers.

Sibling Maina Kanyi said three armed police officers came to their home on Saturday night and demanded to see his brother.

He said the officers broke into King’ori’s house and took him away.

“After a few minutes, we heard gunshots in our coffee plantation,” Maina said.

King’ori was shot in the back less than 2km from the police station.

Joseph Macharia said one of the officers “told me to my face that they will kill my son for being tough-headed”.

The Star