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The Court of Appeal has awarded the family of a man killed during demonstrations Sh2 million. While awarding the compensation, the Appellate Court in Kisumu characterised the average unarmed demonstrator as a fly and that the Constitution should guard against excesses of armed police.
Citing Gloucester's philosophical musings in the Shakespearean lament of King Lear, "as flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport" the court noted how hapless the demonstrators could be in the eyes of rogue police even as it is legal to demonstrate.
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