Former Chief Justice David Maraga condemned the shooting of facemask hawker identified as Boniface Kariuki during Tuesday’s protests by a police officer at close range in Nairobi.
Kariuki was accosted by two cops while selling masks to protesters, during which one of the cops fired at him.
Maraga said the act by the officers involved was inhumane.
“Boniface Kariuki was shot point-blank, cold, without a drop of humanity,” he said.
The city mask vendor was on Tuesday night operated on at the Kenyatta National Hospital.
His status was not clear on Wednesday.
Director General for Health Dr. Patrick Amoth visited the hospital on Tuesday night and confirmed that the patient was operated on by a neurosurgical team.
The hawker was shot during demonstrations in the Nairobi CBD that turned chaotic as protesters clashed with police.
The protests were linked to growing calls for accountability following the death of teacher and blogger Albert Ojwang while in police custody.
Maraga said that as a result of using ‘rogue operatives’ and goons, at least 22 people were reported from the protests.
“The Kenya National Human Rights Commission (KNCHR), an independent national human rights institution established by the Kenyan Constitution and the KNCHR Act under Article 59 of the Constitution of Kenya 2010, has, as of this evening, recorded twenty-two casualties of shootings and violent attacks that happened across the country today.”
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