Death toll from Kenya’s anti-government protests rises to 16
Nairobi, Kenya – The number of Kenyans who died during the national demonstrations on Wednesday against police brutality and bad governance doubled at 16, according to the State Rights Commission funded by the State.
The goods were also destroyed in the demonstrations which attracted thousands of young frustrated Kenyans. At least two police stations were shaved by angry demonstrators.
The Kenyans demonstrated Wednesday in 23 of the 47 counties across the country, calling at the end of police brutality and better governance. Thousands of people have chanted antigolanding slogans, and the demonstrations have turned into calls for President William Ruto to resign.
Many demonstrators were furious by the recent death of a blogger in detention and the shooting of a civilian during the demonstrations against the death of the blogger.
The Minister of the Interior of the country, Kipchumba Murkomen, evaluated damage to the capital of the capital, Nairobi, where goods were stolen in several stores on Thursday. He said the police would follow up with owners whose video surveillance cameras have captured the looters to ensure rapid arrests.
At least two families identified their deceased parents at the Nairobi morgue. A parent, Fatma Opango, told local media that his 17 -year -old nephew was killed in the Rongai region on the outskirts of Nairobi.
“I came across his photo in an online group and I started looking for him in hospitals hoping to have survived,” she told journalists in the morgue.
Murkomen defended the conduct of the police on Thursday during the demonstrations, saying that “the government has its back”.
“There is no police officer who committed an excess yesterday, they thwarted a coup and they deserve our defense,” said Murkomen, adding that the police “do not carry firearms like toys”.
In downtown Nairobi, businessmen counted their losses after the looters made a descent into their stores and set fire to a few stores.
In one of the buildings where smoke was still mobilizing on Thursday morning, a phone seller told journalists that she had lost actions worth 800,000 shillings in Kenya ($ 6,000).
The Kenyans mobilized Wednesday demonstrations on social media platforms to mark the anniversary of a year of enormous anti-Fiscal events, when the demonstrators stormed Parliament and at least 60 people were killed. Twenty others are still missing.
The president’s parliament and office were barricaded on Wednesday with a razor thread and the demonstrators could not use the roads leading to the two establishments.
