Your friends on the News? (Updated)

Yesterday I saw a former classmate on the news, one of the boys killed in the Ziwani massacre of three boys by our very own Police.

Indeed he was not perfect but he was no dangerous repeat well-known criminal as the police described him. What really happened? No one will ever know.

May they rest in peace; may we all rest in peace.

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For those of you who haven’t yet heard, a couple of nights ago….when Man U were being thrashed in Copenhagen, some cops came visiting to a certain house in Ziwani. They knocked the door at around midnight, saying they were the police…..they then asked ‘Vijana wako? Tunataka kuwaona!’ (Are the boys here? We want to see them!)

You can’t and shouldn’t lie to cops so the three boys were called out, they were all related (I think the two 20 year 0lds were brothers-in-law and the younger one was a nephew of theirs).

When cops in Kenya want to see your kids in the middle of the night, something’s really really wrong, so the mother wanted to go with the cops and her boys, asking what was wrong….the boys and some of the cops had already gone out of sight and it is at this time that gunshots pierced the serene night….someone, one of the boys, screamed for help, he got pumped with lead instead. This is the Ziwani massacre.

It doesn’t make sense to me! Even if the boys were hardcore crime kingpins, who decided they were guilty AND sentenced them to death?

It seems our cops are robbers, even if only of life. Some months ago, still in Ziwani, a cop (or cops-I’m not sure) came knocking demanding to see the kijana in the house, he later shot him 7 times in the HEAD, a few metres from the boy’s bedroom.

What’s going on?