Suspected police officers on Monday night arrested a Limuru grassroots politician and took him to unknown destination.
The officers in several Subaru cars and a Toyota Prado raided Peter Kinyanjui’s rental house at around 9pm, causing panic in the densely populated area.
The plainclothes officers broke into Kinyanjui’s house situated on the third floor after the wife refused to open the door, demanding to know their identity.
“The men carrying metal bars, guns ransacked the house. They threw my child on the floor as they turned the house upside down. My child cowered under the blankets. They asked me where Kinyanjui was and before I could answer one of them slapped me, by this time Kinyanjui was not in the house,” said Catherine Wambui.
The commotion attracted neighbours as Kinyanjui’s mother also arrived and confronted the police. This is when Kinyanjui, who has styled himself as the Kiambu youth leader for Rigathi Gachagua’s party DCP, emerge from his hiding.
When the crowd surged, the police called for back-up as they fired in the air.
Yesterday, the neighbours were counting loses as they repaired metal doors broken by police, who accused them of hiding Kinyanjui.
“They shouted that I open. I could not open to people that I don’t know at night and who were firing recklessly,” said a neighbour.
“What I heard next was men breaking my door, which they succeeded but found no one in my compound. I am asking myself why would the government destroy property in this manner and why use this kind of force to arrest some one at night.”
Kinyanjui’s mother and his wife yesterday went to the Limuru Police Station to inquire of his whereabouts.
“We ask the government to produce my husband at the earliest available opportunity in a court of law. I beseech them not to harm him. Police forcing me and my mother-in-law to lie on wet grass was so inhuman,” said Wambui. [George Njunge]
Kinyanjui’s mother claimed her son was arrested for shouting “one term”, a political slogan aimed President William Ruto.
“The young men, young to be my sons calling me unprintable names, slapping me and pushing me about is an act we see in movies. Also, tossing a sleeping child on the floor in the pretense of looking for Kinyanjui is immoral ,” Wanjiru said.
Kinyanjuis abduction come at time when another young man from Kinoo Ndiangui Kinyagia is still missing after people suspected to be police men abducted him.
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