A chilling video has emerged from Mwiki Phase Three in Kasarani, capturing the terrifying moment a police officer casually pulled out his pistol and opened fire on a crowd of protesters before escaping on a motorbike.
The protests, which had begun peacefully, were sparked by the gruesome murder of 19-year-old Abigael Wanjiku, who was found stabbed multiple times and bludgeoned in her mother’s living room shortly after she had taken lunch to her mother and gone back home to fetch a sweater.
Residents, shaken by her senseless death and frustrated by rising insecurity, took to the streets demanding justice.
It is during this unrest that the fatal shooting occurred.
In a video that has since gone viral and ignited a firestorm of anger across the country, a police officer nonchalantly reached for the pistol strapped to his waist, cocked the gun before aiming and firing at a group of demonstrators.
Seconds later, the officer and his colleague were seen calmly walking away, climbing onto a waiting motorbike, and disappearing from the scene.
A dramatic scene unfolded in Mwiki, Kasarani, where a police officer was captured on video firing at protesters before fleeing the scene on a boda boda pic.twitter.com/fkGZ4e3TpX
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According to the Kasarani Sub-County Chief Criminal Investigation Officer, Wanjiku had been stabbed five times in the stomach and once in the neck. The attackers had also struck her on the head with the frying pan.
As news of her death spread, residents poured into the streets in anger and despair, calling for accountability and an end to the insecurity that had plagued their community.
The protests intensified throughout the evening and into the night. Roads were barricaded. Tempers flared. And then, the unthinkable happened.
On 17th June, a video surfaced online showing the harrowing moment a protester was shot dead at close range during a protest demanding justice for Albert Ojwang, who was killed at the Nairobi Central Police Station.
The man, identified as Boniface Kariuki, a hawker, was ambushed by two armed and masked police officers outside a building along Moi Avenue.
In the now-viral footage, one of the officers was seen shooting Karuiki in the head before he slumped to the ground in a pool of blood holding his masks.
The video, recorded by multiple journalists, spread rapidly across social media platforms, fuelling widespread outrage.
The two officers, later identified as Masinde Barasa and Duncan Kiprono, were eventually charged in court.
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