Githunguri MP Gathoni Wamuchomba at KNH after vising the facility. Gathoni said that 9 minors are at the Hospital with Gunshot wounds. Gathoni Wamuchomba X.
Githunguri MP Gathoni Wamuchomba has said that nine minors are being treated at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) with gunshot wounds they sustained during Monday Saba Saba Day commemoration that turned chaotic.
Wamuchomba said she received a distressing call from Tigoni Police Station of a minor detained for two days with a gunshot wound at his leg at the station, which was bleeding. According to the legislator, the young boy was rescued by a well-wisher who rushed him at KNH for further treatment.
“Got a distress call from Limuru about a minor who was put in police cells in Tigoni police station with bullet lodged in his bleeding legs for two days. This morning a good Samaritan managed to take the boy to KNH for treatment,” Wamuchomba said.
After visit to the hospital and a ward round at the hospital, she later established that more than five minors were admitted, who narrated to her that they were shot while in their homes, with the youngest minor Dan Odhiambo who was shot twice at their home in Kiserian, is only 7-years-old.
Wamuchomba questioned the safety of Kenyans, as even those at home not taking part in the protests are being killed by police bullets, calling an end to the killing of children by the Kenya Kwanza administration.
“My visit to KNH this afternoon confirms that there a total of 9 minors with gunshot wounds in the wards. The youngest is 7 yrs Dan Odhiambo shot twice while watching cartoons in their house in Kiserian on Monday evening. Sadly, all these minors confirmed to me that the bullets found them in the precincts of their homes. If our homes aren’t safe for children where else is safe?” she questioned.
Her revelation comes as a family in Ndumberi count is mourning the death of their 12-year-old class seven pupil Bridget Njoki who succumbed to a stary bullet that killed her on Monday at her parents house while she watched television at around 6pm.
In a statement, Kenya National Commission of Human Rights (KNCHR), recorded that 31 Kenyans were killed during the Saba Saba protests, with 107 injured and over 500 protesters arrested across the country.
