Guards killed my friend for peeing in public

A woman narrated to the High Court in Mombasa how his intoxicated friend was allegedly clobbered to death by night guards. The guards are said to have accused him of urinating at a parking lot in Naivas Mall in Nyali in 2018. Yvette Adhiambo, a credit officer, said her friend, David Kamau, got into a fight with the guards who attacked  him with batons, leaving him unconscious and bleeding.

“I was just there helpless. They were beating him with batons. I tried to stop them but they proceeded to beat him on the head and back,” she said.She told Justice Ann Ong’injo that on January 7, 2018, they had partied at Tapas Club in Nyali before they decided to head home.

“As we were leaving, David was urinating on the grass outside the parking lot and the security guards came to stop him. However, the way they confronted him led to an argument. They were roughing him up and he was asking them what the problem was if he urinated there,” said Adhiambo.

However, she contradicted herself in a recorded statement that Kamau brandished a machete during the confrontation but later told the court she never saw any machete on the said night. Adhiambo was testifying in a case where two guards, Hamisi Hare and Said Mwamuye are charged with murder. She said that even if Kamau did brandish a machete, no one was hurt and the guards had no right to beat him to death.

“Even if the machete incident happened, nobody was cut. These are people who knew him because he worked at Stanbic, and still it doesn’t give them the right to beat him to death,” said Adhiambo.During examination-in-chief by State Counsel Bernard Ngiri, Adhiambo said that she was also intoxicated to clearly see the faces of the guards that beat up her friend.