Residents of Juja have been complaining over insecurity in the region with the cold murder of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture students alarming case examples.
However news recently came that police shot down five criminals who had planned to stage a robbery.This was supposed to be good news to the residents but turns out it could have been extra-judicial killing.
The Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) has launched investigations into the killing of the four including a lawyer last Tuesday night.
And the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) has written to the Deputy Inspector General of Police Edward Mbugua and Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Hajji asking for investigations, arrests and prosecution of the perpetrators of the murder of Jeremiah Kinyua Meeme, the slain lawyer.
The four were killed in Juja, Kiambu County after police opened fire on them on allegations that they were robbers who had first shot at police.Police say they were five but one escaped.
They died inside their vehicle after it was sprayed with over forty bullets.Police said that they had laid an ambush on them after receiving information on an intended robbery at Lexo Petrol Station, in Juja Township.
Police said that one of the alleged robbers with an AK 47 escaped and they had shot the others who had brandished pistols at them.
IPOA said that it had immediately launched investigations “with a view of unraveling the circumstances that led to the fatal shootings.”