mpobiz wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:FRM2011 wrote:
Down memory lane.....
The year is 1997. Politically-instigated ethnic clashes have hit Molo, Elburgon and other areas in the RV. Before long a comrade from Egerton university is killed while at home.
The comrades respond the way they know how. Through riots. During the confrontation with cops, a comrade is killed by a police bullet.
The following day, KU students riot in support of their Egerton comrades. Once again, cops are called in to quell the riots and two comrades are shot dead. It would have ended there were it not for one Prof. George Eshiwani, the then Vice Chancellor. He was a Moi sycophant but had a heart in his chest.
On being told that two of his students have been killed, the VC hit the roof. He summoned the Kasarani OCPD who was in-charge to his office and dialed state house. By the time he replaced the phone receiver, Kasarani police had a new OCPD, OCS, deputy OCPD and CID boss.
When the OCPD and his anti-riot brigade went back to the station, they were all arrested. 11 of them were charged with murder. The trial took years with the cops languishing in remand.
Why all this history ? Today in the morning, 11-year old Stephanie Moraa was playing at their balcony in Mathare. A bullet hit and killed her on the spot. The acting interior CS insists police are not using live bullets. Lets not even talk of the many guys being flushed out of their house and tortured badly by GSU. Their crime being living in the wrong places.
Just wish we had an Eshiwani inside Uhuru's government. Only one who has a heart inside their chest.
who was that OCPD? I don't seem to see a change in OCPD at that station during that year, or I might be looking at different info.
Kwanini Huyu mtu anatupea story za uongo.
Here is a link from human rights watch.
https://www.hrw.org/news...e-force-against-student
We are talking 20 years ago. Long before Nation and standard started publishing online. I remember because I was a student at Moi and we almost went on strike in solidarity.
It was the only time that cops were held to account for use of excessive force. This is the same year cops killed 14 people on a single day during saba saba protests. 4 of them shot inside the all saints cathedral church. The KU incident made Eshiwani a darling of human rights activists.
The 11 cops arrested went through hell. They were all locked up in Kasarani. Together with the thugs they had arrested earlier.
BTW, of the 14 guys killed on saba saba, 7 were from Muite's Kabete constituency.
This is why I have an evil smile when I see Jubilants supporting police brutality. In 5 years time, WSR will be in charge and the shoe will be in the other foot.