Westlands Member of Parliament Tim Wanyonyi is now calling on the Inspector General of Police Japheth Koome to resign.
This was after the police boss sensationally claimed that Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition of hiring dead bodies to paint the image of the police in a bad light.
Wanyonyi, who was elected on an Orange Democratic Alliance (ODM) on Friday, August 11, dismissed Koome’s remarks stating that police officers used excessive force on innocent Kenyans.
The lawmaker went further and revealed that police officers who were involved in brutal killings of innocent protestors had been going around the country bribing families of those who died in protests to accept that their kin died of pneumonia.
The Orange Democratic Alliance (ODM) legislator on Friday, August 11, said he witnessed several police officers shooting dead peaceful protestors in Nairobi.
“I witnessed two young brave Kenyans shot by the police. One in Kawangware called Kalasinga and one in Kangemi called David Omondi and the police went and wanted to bribe their families to accept that these young men died of pneumonia,
“And we insisted that we must do a postmortem and Omondi was shot seven times while Kalasinga was shot in cold blood and was killed,” Wanyonyi said.
Speaking at the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Park in Bondo, Siaya County during a requiem mass for victims of police brutality, the youthful lawmaker maintained that they will not be intimidated but will continue fighting for the justice of those who lost their lives in protests.
“And we are not going to be cowed. We will continue and we are going to fight for these brave hearts that are lying there. We demand for justice these families,” he added.
