A family in Kariobangi South, Nairobi, is demanding justice for a 13-year-old boy who was allegedly injured by a police bullet under unclear circumstances last Thursday.
The family wants the National Police Service to take full responsibility of the incident and ensure justice for the boy.
Elvis Muhia is a Grade 7 pupil at Riverside Primary School in Kariobangi South.
Relatives claim he was hit by a police bullet in the stomach while on his way to a shop near his mother’s rented house.
Muhia was taken to a hospital in the area, where he was referred to Kenyatta National Hospital.
The incident was reported at Kariobangi police station the same day at 7.20 pm under OB Number 56/23/05/2024 by Muhia’s uncle, George Kimani.
He said the boy was taken to hospital by residents after they moved around the estate with him on a mkokoteni in protest.
“The mother was called on the phone and told her child had been shot and taken to hospital. At the facility, the boy received first aid and was referred to KNH, where he was placed in ICU for three days. He is now in the general ward,” Kimani said.
He said when he inquired from the officers why the boy was shot at and injured, they said some people wanted to torch a bulldozer during the ongoing demolitions of structures along the Nairobi River.
“One of the officers at the station told me that bullets were discharged to scare away those who wanted to torch the bulldozer, someone got injured and they heard he had been taken to hospital,” Kimani told reporters on Tuesday.
