A disturbing video making rounds on the YouTube has emerged
showing some police officers executing two suspected criminals in their
custody.
NTV Kenya confirmed the incident which occured on Friday,
March 18, unfolded in the middle of a well-lit road, after the officers had
arrested the duo while reportedly robbing a lady of her phone.
The police officers believed to be attached to Pangani
Police Station, a suburb in Kenya capital Nairobi, were seen ordering the suspects
to lie on the ground before going ahead to shoot them at close range.
In the video, one of the police officers had fired two shots
on the already immobile suspects. The video clip ended after the shots were
fired.
It was later revealed that the two suspects purportedly
belonged to a gang of four robbers, who had mounted two motorbikes and ambushed
the said lady before dispossessing her of phone and gold earrings worth
Ksh100,000.
“A crack team of officers drawn from Pangani Police Station
and the DCI rushed to Pangani in search of the motorcycles,” local media
reports said.
However, a police statement made by the said officers
claimed they had challenged the suspects who declined to surrender, shooting at
the officers instead, thereby forcing the ‘killer-cops’ to act in
“self-defence” by gunning them down.
The unlawful killing has since drawn an ire in the public,
especially among Kenyans, who are obviously miffed at the heightened spate of
extra-judicial killings in the country, with civilians and human rights groups
accusing police of applying excessive force on suspected criminals.
Local media’s attempts to reach the National Police
Spokesman, Bruno Shioso, were futile as both calls and texts went unanswered.
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