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Boniface Kariuki mourned amid more police killings

The parents of Boniface Kariuki with relatives after visiting Boniface Kariuki in the ICU during a media briefing at Kenyatta National Hospital on Saturday, 21st June 2025. [David Gichuru, Standard]

Boniface Kariuki, the hawker shot by police during protests in Nairobi on 25 June, was eulogised as a hardworking person even as calls to end extra-judicial killings dominated his requiem mass yesterday.

At the unusual memorial service — without his body and with only a handful of people present — a sombre mood and tension engulfed All Saints Cathedral as friends and family paid tribute to the deceased.

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