Unruly youths cause mayhem after Court’s verdict

By Cyrus Ombati

KENYA: A group of youth raided a mini-supermarket in Huruma area, Nairobi Sunday morning and looted property as they protested the Supreme Court ruling that upheld the election of Uhuru Kenyatta as Kenya's fourth president.

The gang was armed with crude weapons when they raided the premises and police say they are yet to know who were behind it.

Tension is high in the area with more police officers being deployed. Starehe Deputy OCPD Joseph Gichangi said they are containing the situation.

He said the youths who raided the property were angered by the ruling.

“The situation is calm now and there is heavy deployment.”

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More police were deployed to parts of Kibera slums in Nairobi where protests broke out Sunday morning over Saturday’s Supreme Court verdict.

A group of youths blocked roads in the area but police arrived there in time and dispersed them.

This has prompted more deployment of police to man the slum. In Kawangware, a house was burnt down after a group of youth attacked the occupants accusing them of being anti reforms. Police say they are holding two suspects in connection with the incident.

And two youths were Sunday night shot dead in Nairobi’s Dandora estate in Nairobi in similar protests.

Police say the two were thugs who had been attacking and robbing locals when an alarm was raised and claim they recovered a gun from them. At least three other people were injured in the shooting that occurred as a group of youths protested the ruling.

There were disturbances in Kariobangi, Mathare, Kawangware, Jogoo Road, Kayole and major informal settlement areas.

Kisumu protests

Inspector General of Police David Kimaiyo says they have sent a team of police to hospitals in Kisumu to investigate the nature of injuries that the youths admitted there sustained.

Kimaiyo said two died while seven are still in hospital in the Lakeside city. Four were treated and discharged. All the victims have gunshot wounds that were inflicted by police.

“We want to know the nature of the injuries they have. We have to investigate as a procedure,” he said.

He said most parts of Nairobi experienced small disturbances but the situation is under control with more police deployments.