Die hard fans? Murang’a man shot and killed by police officer whose Chelsea team lost to Arsenal

A football match between Chelsea and Arsenal on Saturday, January 19, which ended with the latter losing to the former has seen one man lose his life in Murang’a county. Martin Waweru died on the morning of Thursday, January 24, after he was shot by a police officer who was angered by his favourite team, Chelsea losing to Arsenal.

The duo were in the company of other fans at a local club in Murang’a when the officer picked up a quarrel with some of them after the team lost, Daily Nation reported. According to the report, Waweru left the bar shortly afterwards to take home a loaf of bread and fish he had bought for his family. The officer then hurriedly walked past him towards the camp only to return with a gun and shoot him.

Murang’a man dies after being shot by police officer whose Chelsea team lost to Arsenal

“Upon reaching where I was he ordered me to lie down and I obeyed,” Waweru narrated before succumbing to he gunshot wounds. He then shot me three times at the back on my waist, above my back and on my hand and dragged me to the police camp and forced me to drink water while I was bleeding,” he added According to him, a scuffle ensued between the officer attached to the Muruka AP Camp and other locals prompting him to leave the bar to go get his gun.

Locals who were on their way home tried to assist me but all was in vain as the officer with two others thwarted their efforts to have me taken to hospital in a car insisting that I had to be ferried by a police van,” added Waweru. According to the area locals, Waweru is not the first one to die in the hands of the officer whom they described as hot tempered and tends to arrest people whenever his team loses.

A relative of Waweru’s said the deceased is the third villager to die in the hands of the police and called on the National Police Service to conduct an inquiry into the incidents.

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