\u00a0The Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) claimed that journalist Arshad Sharif was killed in a \u201cclearly planned and executed\u201d murder conspiracy.
\nMavenjina, who is a lawyer at Kenya\u2019s High Court and works for the lead human rights organisation in Kenya, told the publication that Sharif\u2019s \u201cmurder was clearly planned and executed\u201d and \u201cit simply shows that he was surveilled over a good period of time. The question is how did the security agencies know he was in that specific locality at that time\u201d.
\nThe official said that the Kenyan police used the excuse of mistaken identity but there is no corroborative evidence of mistaken identity and their position is unsustainable.
\nMavenjina, who has documented human rights abuses by the Kenya police, accused the Kenyan police are notorious for unlawful killings and the KHRC, over the last couple of decades, has documented cases of unlawful killings and enforced disappearances through the missing persons\u2019 coalition.
\n\u201cThe Kenya police are guilty as charged. Their excuse of mistaken identity doesn\u2019t hold water because when you file a complaint to the police you give a clear description of the vehicle. In this case, the vehicle in which Sharif was travelling was a V8 Landcruiser. These are the vehicles used by cabinet members, parliamentarians and VIPs,” the lawyer said speaking on the matter.
\nThe human rights advocate said that Kenya\u2019s constitution guides the police on how to respect human rights and protect them but \u201clook at how Sharif was killed and it shows there was an outright disregard for the constitution and human rights. In my honest opinion, Sharif\u2019s killing was clearly planned and clearly choreographed\u201d.
\nMavenjina said that of all the countries in the world, Kenya\u2019s police are number three in corruption. \u201cWe have instances where Kenyan police killed innocent people including a human rights lawyer and it took over four years to investigate and follow the due process to get the officers convicted\u201d.
\nThe KHRC official said that his organisation, with help from the missing person\u2019s coalition over the last five years, has documented over 200 cases of unlawful kings and disappearances by the police.
\n\u201cIn the first six months of the COVID outbreak, police killed more Kenyans than the COVID. There were over 25 killings in the first six months,” he said commenting on the state of Kenya’s police.
\nMavenjina said it was clear that Sharif\u2019s shooters were \u201cwell trained over a long period of time\u201d.
\nThe KHRC official added: \u201cOrdinarily it is very difficult to get a headshot on a very specific target or an individual in a moving vehicle even at a close range it is very difficult but if you look at circumstances in which Sharif was shot at two places this was well-planned.
\nThe roadblocks were placed for a purpose. When there are roadblocks in Kenya, people are told there will be roadblocks for ID checks etc, there was nothing in this case.\u201d
\nSharif was invited to visit and stay in Kenya by Nairobi-based property developer Waqar Ahmad, brother of Khurram Ahmad who was driving the journalist on the fateful night of October 23, when he died in a hail of bullets rained on him by the Kenyan police at a deserted area.
\nBoth Waqar and Khurram have been questioned by Pakistan\u2019s investigation team \u2014 the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) Director Athar Wahid and Intelligence Bureau’s (IB) Deputy Director-General Omar Shahid Hamid \u2014 to ascertain facts regarding the journalist\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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