Kenya police kills 3 protesters wounds 2

Kenya police kills 3 protesters wounds 2

3 anti-IEBC protesters have been shot dead while 3 other survived with gun shoot wounds inflicted by Kenya Police allegedly for storming a police station wielding stones axes and hoes demanding for reforms ahead of the new election.

Siaya County, Bondo police chief Paul Kiarie confirmed the development saying

Today demonstrators defied a new government ban on opposition protests in the central business districts of Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu and went on to protest

In the capital, Nairobi, police fired tear gas as opposition supporters tried to march to the central business district. In Kisumu, Kenya’s third-largest city, local television showed running battles with stone-throwing youth.

Police also used tear gas in Mombasa, Kenya’s second-largest city, said opposition legislator Abdulswamad Shariff Nassir.

 Government on Thursday banned opposition protests in the cities’ central business districts because of “imminent danger of breach of peace,” Interior Minister Fred Matiangi said, claiming that opposition supporters had looted businesses and attacked police stations.

Human rights groups protested the ban, with some pointing out that police have killed at least 37 people in protests since the results of the August election were announced.

Opposition coalition Chief Executive Officer Norman Magaya said police have allowed government supporters into the banned protest areas and that they were attacking opposition supporters.

Opposition leaders have called for daily demonstrations ahead of the fresh elections. Opposition leader Raila Odinga, whose legal challenge led the court to nullify President Uhuru Kenyatta’s re-election, this week said he has withdrawn from the race because no reforms to electoral commission have been made.