Several local and international journalists and relevant personalities have raised questions about the Kenyan police’s claims surrounding senior Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif’s killing in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.
The journalist had left the country in August after he was charged with sedition cases. He died in Kenya’s Nairobi after being shot, confirmed his wife, Javeria Siddique a day earlier. Here are some basic questions which still need answers even after the official statement of Kenyan police about the killing in a case of “mistaken identity.”
1. Did the police attempt to stop the vehicle and did the occupants defy the orders?
2. Why did police open fire and yet the occupants were not shooting at them?
3. Why didn’t the police shot the vehicle’s tyres to immobilize it instead f lethal force?
4. Why did police aim at the passenger and not the driver?
5. Why did police open fire and yet there was a child allegedly on board the vehicle that was reportedly carjacked?
6. If the vehicle was common on that road then what caused the mistaken identity?
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7. How did the police confuse a KDG 200M and a KDJ700F?
8. What was the colour and model of the vehicle that was stolen?
What Kenyan police said?
The police was reported by Kenyan media as claiming that Shairf had been shot in the head and killed by the authorities on Sunday night along the Nairobi-Magadi highway in a case of “mistaken identity”.
Sharif and his driver allegedly breached a roadblock that had been set up to check on motor vehicles using the route, where there was a call for police to intercept a car similar to the one they were driving following a carjacking incident in Pangani area, Nairobi where a child was taken hostage.
Police sources also appear to have said that this was followed by a brief chase and shooting that left the journalist dead and the driver injured as the car rolled.
The driver was reportedly taken to a hospital where he claimed that he and his slain colleague were developers headed to Magadi.
