On the funeral of Ibrahim Kamau, a 19-year-old bike taxi rider who died after being shot twice within the neck throughout Tuesday’s protest, Edith Wanjiku mentioned she wished justice for her son and all the opposite younger individuals who have been killed or injured.
“Ibrahim was a relaxed younger man, and a cheerful one who was by no means concerned in crime,” she mentioned at a cemetery in Kariokor, a Nairobi neighbourhood. “All I’m asking is for justice to prevail.”
At his graveside, Boniface Mwangi, one of many extra outstanding activists in an in any other case extra diffuse and leaderless motion, mentioned Kamau was murdered by police.
“His life was minimize very quick,” Mwangi informed Reuters. “He was unarmed, simply protesting for his rights.”
($1 = 128.7500 Kenyan shillings)
