Standard 8 Pupil Shot by Police on His Way to School
On Monday, a class eight student was shot and injured by police in the Kakamega East subcounty during a confrontation with locals.
The student was on his way to school on Monday morning when he became involved in a confrontation between the police and irate residents of Lukose village in the Shinyalu constituency during a crackdown on illicit beverages.
However, police overpowered and repelled the residents prior to implementing the assault.
The minor is admitted in stable condition to the Kakamega County General Hospital.
Mildred Gwekinza, assistant chief of the sublocation of Shing’odo, was also injured during the altercation.
Residents stated that they did not oppose the crackdown, but rather the police officers who ransacked their residences and destroyed their property.
“We have allowed the officers search our homes because we know that the police IG Japhet Koome has directed as such. We are angry by the officers because they shutter our windows and beat up innocent people after missing the alcohol,” a resident said.
Emmah Kibara, the deputy county commissioner of Kakamega East East, and Daniel Mukumbu, the subcounty police superintendent, reported that the raid was successful.
The officers established that police destroyed 40,000 liters of Kangara and removed the suspect’s farm’s bhang.
The village is notorious for distilling and conveying chang’aa to Nairobi and other cities in the country, according to Kibara.
"What we saw there is absurd because even the wastes from the illegal distillers from over 50 houses in the same village is discharged into a nearby river and even animals there are drunk,” she said.
During the operation, according to the DCC, two suspects were apprehended and will be accused in court.
A Standard 8 Pupil Shot by Police on His Way to School