A man said to have been shot three times by a police officer who was angry after his favourite football team lost in a game has died at the Murang’a Level Five Hospital.
Martin Waweru who hailed from Muruka village in Kandara Constituency was allegedly shot by an Administration Police (AP) officer attached to Muruka AP camp while on his way home from a local bar where they were taking beer while watching the football game.
It is said that the police officer was mad after his favourite team, Chelsea, was beaten by Arsenal 2:0.
Mr Waweru, who talked to the Nation on Wednesday evening before succumbing to the gunshot wounds Thursday morning, narrated how he arrived at the village where he was employed by a gas supplier and decided to go take a beer.
It is while in the bar that he met the officer who was watching the game together with other villagers.
He said after taking two mugs of Keg beer he decided to go home and to his wife and daughter. He had bought for them a loaf of bread and a fish.
As he was going out of the bar, a scuffle ensued between the officer and other villagers after the policeman’s favourite team lost.
Mr Waweru said he proceeded to go home but the officer passed him along the way, went to the AP camp and came back with a gun.
At that time, other locals were on their way home from the bar and were behind him.
“Upon reaching where I was he ordered me to lie down and I obeyed. He then shot me three times at the back on my waist, above my back and on my hand and dragged me to the police camp which is 750 meters away and forced me to drink water while I was bleeding profusely,” Mr Waweru narrated from his hospital bed.
He went on, “Locals who were on their way tried to assist me but all was in vain as the officer with the two others thwarted their efforts to have me taken to hospital in a car insisting that I had to be ferried by a police van.”
Mr Waweru said he lost his Sh30,000, another Sh20000 which was his two weeks salary and Sh10,000 which he had been given by his boss for re-stock the business.
The incident happened between the 8:30pm to 9pm but the police van arrived at 10pm and residents again clashed with the officers.
A villager who sought anonymity said the officer, whom he described as hot tempered, has a tendency of arresting people and demanding bribes whenever his favourite team is beaten. For this reason, most residents always avoid him.
Mr Waweru’s wife, Rose Muthoni, said she heard gunshots from her home only to later find out that her husband had been shot.
She claimed that the officer confessed that her husband was not his main target and that he had wronged.