Nairobi, Kenya-The number of Kenyans who died during Wednesday’s national protests on police brutality and bad governance doubled to 16, according to the State Human Rights Commission.
The property was also destroyed in the protests that attracted thousands of frustrated Kenyan young people. At least two police stations were razed by angry protesters.
The Kenyans demonstrated on Wednesday in 23 of 47 counties throughout the country, asking for the end of police brutality and better governance. Thousands sang anti -government slogans, and the protests became calls to President William Ruto to resign.
Many protesters were enraged by the recent death of a blogger in custody and the shooting of a civilian during the protests for the death of the blogger.
The interior minister of the country, Kipchumba Murkomen, evaluated on Thursday damages to the companies in the capital, Nairobi, where assets of several stores were stolen. He said the police would follow the owners whose CCTV cameras captured the looters to guarantee rapid arrests.
At least two families have identified their deceased relatives in the morgue of Nairobi. A relative, Fatma Opango, told local media that his 17 -year -old nephew was shot dead in the area of Rongai on the outskirts of Nairobi.
“I met his photo in an online group and began to look for him in the hospitals in the hope that he had survived,” he told journalists from La Morgue.
Murkomen defended the conduct of police officers during the protests on Thursday, saying that the “government supports you.”
“There is no police officer who committed any excess yesterday, they frustrated a coup d’etat and deserve our defense,” Murkomen said, added that the police “do not carry weapons like toys.”
In the center of Nairobi, the entrepreneurs counted their losses after the looters assaulted their stores and set fire to some stores.
In one of the buildings where the smoke was still going on Thursday morning, a telephone seller told journalists that he lost actions worth 800,000 Chelines in Kenya ($ 6,000).
The Kenians mobilized Wednesday’s protests on social media platforms to commemorate the first anniversary of enormous protests against taxes, when the protesters assaulted Parliament and at least 60 people were killed. Even another twenty twenty.
The president’s parliament and the office were on Wednesday locked up with razor wire and the protesters could not use the roads that lead to the two establishments.
