Chilling Details of how Police Killed innocent Civilians in a cold blooded Dandora Massacre

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The country woke up on Sunday morning to news that six gangsters had been gunned down in Nairobi’s Dandora Estate.

According to the police, the six were part of a gang that had hijacked a motorist in Lucky Summer and raped his middle aged client before stealing from them.

Fresh details however state otherwise. It is alleged that the police killed innocent people on that fateful morning.

Festus Mwendwa narrated  to a local newspaper how police killed his only son — Sammy Musili, a KCSE candidate at Dandora Secondary School.

The killings triggered public uproar forcing the Independent Oversight Policing Authority to swing into action.

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Yesterday, IPOA sent a team of over 10 investigators to probe the incident even as rights advocacy groups Independent Medical-Legal Unit and International Justice Mission launched independent investigations into the killings.

“I was woken up by gunshots at around 6.30am on Sunday but I did not bother to check what was going on because I was preparing to go to church. I decided to go and buy milk to prepare tea,” Mwendwa said.

On his way back from the shop, he was stopped from using the route by police officers who told him it was a crime scene. One of the officers finally allowed him to pass.

Mwendwa, a 48-year-old mason, narrated how he was busy preparing tea when a neighbour came shouting at his door, “Baba Sammy, Baba Sammy. Sammy has been killed.”

Mwendwa had rented a house for his 23-year old son in the adjacent building after his mother died two years go and was buried in Mwingi. Josephine Karunguma, a guardian, was supporting him with basic needs.

“I was shocked so I ran out to the scene but the police blocked me from seeing the body of my son,” Musili said and broke down in tears.

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Musili had climbed a tree to have a glance at what was going on in the neighbourhood. The police were chasing two suspected gangsters who had reportedly raped a middle-aged woman and stolen a motorcycle.

One of the suspects had already been shot dead while the other climbed a roof in a bid to escape.

The weak roof caved in according to Wilfred Olal, a coordinator at Dandora Justice Centre, and sunk the suspects into the house where three people – David Kariuki and his nephews were sleeping.

The officers caught the three and the suspect in the house and frog-marched them to an open ground where they were executed.

Kariuki’s nephews – Peter Mwangi, a Kisii University student and another identified as John, a student in a Murang’a school, had visited for the holiday. Their mother, Kariuki’s sister, died in July.

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“Karuiki pleaded with them (police) to spare his nephews because they were students and that they were innocent but the officers could hear none of it,” Olal said.

As Kariuki was pleading with the police, a female officer came and told her colleagues not to waste time and shot all the three.

Some people who had gathered at the scene told the officers that a suspect had climbed a tree. He was ordered to come down. He was shot dead despite pleading that he was a student.

According to Olal, there were seven policemen in total. A light-skinned Kamba policewoman shot Sammy on the head and chest at point blank range.

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