The parents of a third-year student at Maseno University who was shot dead by police during Monday’s protests have spoken and condemned the police action.
William Manyange was shot in the neck and died on the spot.
A second student is nursing gunshot wounds in a hospital in Kisumu after being shot by police.
Speaking to journalists at the Coptic Mission Hospital morgue in Maseno on Tuesday, the deceased’s parents, Everlyne Miruka and Joash Bang’i Manyange said they are still in shock over the death of their firstborn child.
The mother said she received word that her son had been hospitalized at the facility but was not aware that he was already dead as she hurriedly made her way there.
“He was not a bandit. I am aggrieved and I don’t know what my son did to deserve such a fate. He was killed on the streets by policemen,” she said while fighting back tears.
She added that she last spoke to her son on Monday, outside Maseno University, when she dropped off a few supplies for him.
“I have lost my first-born son who I was hoping would become somebody in the future. He wanted to be a teacher and he was set to graduate next year but he is no more,” she said.
The father said they are consulting the way forward.
“We are still in shock and we don’t know how we will proceed from here. We got word that police shot him dead but we did not witness that for ourselves,” said Joash, who is a teacher at Birongo Secondary School in Kisii.
