Kisii family seeks help to bury polytechnic student allegedly killed in protests

Mourners outside Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital Mortuary. Photos by Enock Okong'o

The family of John Nyabuti, a student at Kisii National Polytechnic allegedly to have been killed in the protests has appealed for help from the government and well-wishers to aid in his burial.

The family of John Nyabuti, a student at Kisii National Polytechnic alleged to have killed in the protests has appealed for help from the government and well-wishers to aid in his burial.

According to Tabitha Nyabuto, the mother of the deceased sad the student is reported to have left home for school on Tuesday, July 2 but did not return home at evening which prompted the family to do a search on him.

It was until on Friday, last week that the family of Nyabuto was stunned with revelations that their kin’s lifeless body was at Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital Mortuary sprayed with several bullets.

“When I went there in the company of my brothers- in-law we discovered the decomposing body of my son as among many still bodies in that cold house,” narrated the tearful mother.

The late comes from Kanyimbo village, Bomachoge Chache Constituency, Kisii County.

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According to the Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital (KTRH) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Oimeke Marita, only one person died from the protests in Kisii with other 30 admitted at the hospital with different injuries.

Kisii Governor Simba Arati with Kisii Central Ward MCA Wilfred Monyenye and KTRH CEO Marita Oimeke visits victim injured uring Gen Z protests.He revealed that most of the patients admitted had since been dischargedwhile a few were undergoing treatment.

Governor Arati had pledged to waiver the bills of the patients wounded as a result of the protest urging that the police investigate of the reported 376 suspected goons who were allegedly transported from outside the county to cause unrest.

Kisii Police Commander Charles Keses on the other hand has said normalcy had returned to the town adding that a lot of traders lost property worth millions of shillings during the melee.

By Enock Okong’o.

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