Nipate
Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: Georgesoros on September 18, 2014, 05:25:21 PM
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They commit murders and they cover it up. I would rather a criminal because you know they are criminals. And families dont even get compensated when they win court cases.
THE mother to a 14-year old standard four girl who was allegedly killed by police during a raid in their Kwale home has now moved to court seeking resignation of Inspector General of Police David Kimaiyo.
Umazi Zani, through lawyer John Khaminwa, also wants an order compelling the Director of Public prosecutions compelled to order the National Police Service, to carry out effective investigations into the killing of Kwekwe Mwandaza, in compliance with the standards set in international law.
In court documents filed yesterday, Zani seeke a declaration that the brutal killing of her daughter by members of the NPS on August 22, is in violation of Kwekwe's right to life.
She also wants the court to declare that the lack of effective investigations into the killing is in further violation of the right to life.
Kwekwe's body was exhumed last week in an emotional moment witnessed by Muslims for Human Rights, who had sought the exhumation by police, pathologists and relatives to the deceased.
In the case, Zani has sued the IGP, the DPP and the Independent Police Oversight Authority.
She says Kwekwe was killed at her uncle's (Hussein Zani) house in Maweu village, Kwale county, where she attended school at Mavirivirini Primary.
The controversial raid conducted on August 22 at around 2am, was aimed at flushing out criminals suspected to be residing in the house.
“Kwekwe was sleeping in the house together with her two cousins George Mgandu, 10, and George Luvano, 7, when the police kicked the door open and lobbed teargas into the house demanding to know the whereabouts of Hussein,” she said.
She alleges Kwekwe jumped off the bed and told the officers that the uncle was not in.
Zani said an officer shot Kwekwe in the head before she fell down.
“Soon after the killing, the police realised that Kwekwe's cousin George Mgandu had been watching, and one of the officers ordered that he also be killed, but the other declined saying the minor was too young to reveal anything.
The court was informed that the officers took the body and did not allow the family to accompany them.
Zani said the family later found Kwekwe's naked body at the Kinango District Hospital mortuary, where attendants told them the body was found in a thicket and that the killers were unknown.
“An autopsy was clandestinely carried out and a burial done without my authorisation, I have attempted to file a complaint concerning the incident, however, this has been frustrated with bureaucracy and has hit a snug,” she said.