Human Rights Watch on Wednesday demanded that the Government of Kenya investigates the shooting of a high school student, her mother and three other people allegedly by police.
Otsieno Namwaya, Africa Researcher at HRW said that it is suspected that many other people were injured in the shooting that occurred during public demonstrations in Bumula centre, Busia County.
“Police officers found to have unnecessarily used lethal force should be held to account,” said Namwaya.
Local media reports said that ironically the demonstrations were being held to protest police brutality in Bumula sub-county.
In late October, a survey released by the Independent Medico-Legal Unit (IMLU) revealed that regular police were ranked the highest perpetrators of torture at 59 percent followed by Administration Police at 18 percent.
According to the IMLU survey most incidences of torture occur in the context of law enforcement with strangulation, beatings, scalding, scarring and shootings as the main forms of torture.
Threats, intimidation and abductions are used for psychological torture, said the report.
