Fresh protests broke out in Kenya’s capital Nairobi on Thursday (June 12) over the death of a blogger in police custody last week, the latest case to draw scrutiny to the country’s security services which have been accused of extrajudicial killings for years.
Police fired teargas to disperse dozens of protesters in the capital, Reuters TV footage showed, a day after President William Ruto said blogger Albert Ojwang had died “at the hands of the police”, reversing earlier official accounts of his death.
Police initially said Ojwang, 31, was arrested in western Kenya on Friday for allegedly defaming the country’s deputy police chief Eliud Lagat online, and died “after hitting his head against a cell wall”.
Police watchdog IPOA (Independent Policing Oversight Authority) has launched a probe while the European Union and the United States have called for a transparent investigation into the blogger’s death.
Protesters demanded Lagat’s resignation on Thursday, with some carrying Kenyan flags and chanting “Lagat must go”.
His wounds, including a head injury, neck compression and soft tissue damage, pointed towards assault as the cause of death, according to pathologist Bernard Midia, who was part of a team that conducted an autopsy.
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Shauri yenyu ,mtakufa bure ,tunawatazama mtu wajinga
Kenya 🇰🇪 shida nini hampiti mwaka mnakiwasha 😅😅😅😅
Niko kunywa bia tz
Wanaume kazini sio tz miyeyusho
😂😂😂😂wanaitwa returning officers
Serekali ya kenya haina meno, ya kuwatafuna hawo wahuni na kuwameza, ndio maana wanasumbua sana, ni heri upoteze kundi dogo lenye tabia mbaya, kuliko kupoteza kundi kubwa la vijana wema wanaosoma, na kufanya kazi, kwa heshima, na kwa Amani.
Kagame
Ikisha munaleta Jabari za tundulisu kwani uko uko kwenu washenzi yetu tytajua vya kuambia wenyewe
Jamn
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Not good
Kunga
Sasa mbona mnaua watu aki
Hello
Nikisema, harambee, mnasema wan tam
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Waaa😅😅
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Do not destroy your country, do not be swept away like us, our homeland was lost
Do not destroy your country, do not be swept away like us, our homeland was lost😢
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Kenya government is not good I support the people 🔥🔥🔥🦋🦋🦋🦋
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RUTO MUST LEave
Careful my pipo😢
يجب طرد مليشيا الدعم السريع من كينيا تحت للشعب الكيني
Ok. Nan
People here in Kenya and General Africa sometimes I'm sorry to say you guys are very naïve people because you need to understand the last president in Kenya. He increased the debt from $20 billion-$90 billion in his nine years presidential time
If you keep now the taxes this way you need to borrow more debt and he's gonna go 100 building to 200 building two 500 building you know what's gonna happen you need to bankruptcy you know what happens if you do bankruptcy the international bankers that take your country and you'll become a slave
The only way to get away from the debt trap listen to the president and he's smart. The western countries don't like him at all because he tries to fight and lower the debt. The and the western banks don't want your country to lower the debt
Stop with the protest you're not protesting you rioting and that's like you destroy your country with this protest and this destroy them. A lot of people are on site. The protester stole our stores. They destroyed our stores we invested what's wrong with you guys like it come to the end I think a lot of people here are paid from those lobbies from the west Europe and USA to do destruction of your country and make you believe the president is the problem. No stop that increase the taxes lower the card funds from the government and lower the debt. There's no other way put it in your mind.
Give them what they want.😢😢😢😢