Kitengela family takes slain son's body home to protect it from police

21 year old Brian Kimutai was allegedly shot dead by a GK Prison Officer on July 7,2025.[Peterson Githaiga/Standard]

 A Kitengela family on Tuesday narrated how they spent the night with the body of their son, who was shot dead by the police during the Saba Saba commemoration on Monday.

The family of 21-year-old Brian Kimutai, commemorating on Monday, now want justice done for their son.

According to his mother, Ann Nyawira, Brian Kimutai was allegedly shot dead by a GK Prison Officer who knew him very well and on a personal level.

Addressing journalists outside the Kitengela Sub-County Morgue on Tuesday, Nyawira said the Prison officer is reported to have had a grudge against Brian over a motorbike, and his friends know very well where the grudge came from.

Ann Nyawira mother to Brian Kimutai address the media outside Kitengela sub county morgue where the body is preserved. [Peterson Githaiga/Standard]

She said Brian was shot a few meters from their house along Kitengela prison road.

''I was with Brian in the morning, and he told me that he was not ready to go out for the protest; he was neither a looter nor a protester,'' said the mother.

She says, according to witnesses who saw the incident happen, the officers marched towards Kimutai, he knelt and raised his hands in surrender, but he was sprayed with bullets by the same officer.

Nyawira narrated how they carried the body from the hospital to their home, where they spent the night.

We were worried the police could interfere with the body, that's why we had no choice but to take it to our house.

Human Rights activists want a probe into the incident, and the warden to be arrested and interdicted immediately.