Police have once again found themselves on the spot after the murder of a university student who was shot dead by goons after a fierce confrontation.
According to witnesses and local traders at Klabu 360 market, OCS Ragira a politician who had contested the Milimani Ward seat as an independent candidate met his death after armed youths with guns and an assortment of crude weapons shot him for while he tried to stop their illegal acts of extortion.
The deadly gang has been demanding payment from the traders in the town in order for them to go on with their activities.
OCS Ragira the murdered Nairobi University Student leader was alive when police arrived. He was breathing. This officer is seen here feeling the pulse and a student has confirmed OCS was breathing. No ambulance, no first aid, nothing. Our incompetence is nauseating.#RIPOCSRagira pic.twitter.com/0d9jRzCoyF— Lord Abraham Mutai (@ItsMutai) March 14, 2019
But what disappointed the politician, who unsuccessfully ran for the Kilimani Ward representative seat in 2017, was the fact that the defenceless businesspeople were being harassed under the watch of police.
The Nation has also established that Mr Ragira’s body was ferried to the mortuary by a Kileleshwa Police Station official car.
The body arrived at the morgue at 7.25pm.
The police officers recorded the cause of death as “mob injustice.”
“He was brought here while still bleeding profusely. Blood was still oozing from his back,” a source at the mortuary told the Nation.
An amateur video that has since gone viral on social media shows Mr Ragira’s body lying inside the morgue, with unknown people counting the number of bullet holes in his body.
Mr Ragira is reported to have met his death when he confronted the said goons who had been terrorising traders for days.
The Nation has learnt that for the last one week, the mean-looking youths, said to be armed with guns and an assortment of crude weapons, have been demanding fees from the traders.
“They ask for money according to the size of the land that you are running your business on. The amount ranges from Sh10,000 to Sh200,000,” a trader who requested for anonymity for security reasons told the Nation.
The trader claimed that they have been operating in fear as the armed and ruthless youths have been brandishing pistols to scare them into submission.