A local administrator who requested not to be named acknowledged the high tension that had been building in the area since morning as youths demanded justice for the slain teacher.
Police Officers from Homabay county, who later arrived at the station nearly an hour after it was set on fire couldn't salvage a lot from this police post that was already on fire.
A mourner, Joseph Onyango, told The Standard that the anger about their son, who was killed by police officers, is still fresh.
"No amount of gifts in the form of money or a new house will take away the pain that our son endured at the hands of rogue police officers. What was so difficult in presenting him before a court of law if in deed he committed a crime?" he posed.
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