By CYRUS OMBATI and NIKKO TANUI
Police are investigating an incident in which an 18-year-old medical student of a Thika college was shot dead in Thika.
Denis Simba was with his girlfriend in his father’s car when officers from Muguga who were on patrol in a private farm allegedly shot at them.
The woman, who was not hurt, claimed after the shooting the officers ordered them out of the vehicle and told them to kneel down.
“As we knelt down raising our hands my boyfriend told me he had been shot. He immediately collapsed and died as I screamed,” she said.
Central AP commandant Joseph Keitany said investigations into the shooting are on. “The officers have been sent off duty as the matter is being investigated into.”
Thika Deputy OCPD Caleb Wesa said the officers mistook them for criminals because when they asked them to identify themselves they allegedly dashed into the vehicle and tried to flee.
The deceased student’s father Bernard Simba who works with the Ministry of Industrialisation in Malindi said he got the sad news from Makongeni Police Station. Thika MP Alice Ng’ang’a condemned the killing.
Meanwhile, emotions ran high during the burial of Vincent Kiplangat, the Fifth Year Mechanical Engineering Kenyatta University student who was shot dead outside the Students’ Centre a week ago by an Administration Police officer during a party to welcome freshers.
AP attacked
Speakers at the funeral at Cheptororiet village in Belgut demanded the Government ensures the culprit is brought to justice.
Area MP Eric Keter said he will raise the issue in Parliament. He recalled meeting the slain university student recently and said he had asked the young man to propose some of the projects that he intended to establish at the village once he graduated in December.
Keter also demanded that the Government reveals the identity and the whereabouts of the alleged killer.
It is said that the AP was admitted to Kenyatta National Hospital after unruly students attacked him. But Keter said he had later been transferred to an unknown location.
