COP FACES COVID-19 CURFEW MURDER CHARGE western

NAIROBI - Two Kenyan police officers will be charged with murder after investigations by the country’s police watchdog, the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) said in a statement.

Duncan Ndiema Ndiwa is accused of shooting dead a 13-year-old boy Yassin Hussein Moyo who was on the balcony of his home in a suburb of the capital, Nairobi, according to the IPOA.

The shooting happened while the police were enforcing a curfew order in place to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Lotugh Angórita killed a teacher, Colleta Amondi Ouda, while responding to a report of a burglary in Siaya county,

Kenya.

The IPOA also named four other police officers who will be charged over an assault on a man in Garissa, in the east of the country.

Yesterday, the watchdog body said that 15 people had been killed by police and 31 injured since coronavirus measures were introduced on

March 25.

The IPOA said it had received 87 complaints from the public, including assaults resulting in serious injuries, robbery, inhuman treatment and sexual assault. Human rights groups have often complained about police brutality and impunity for the officers involved. In Senegal, police arrested more than 70 people yesterday after protests tinged by violence broke out in several cities across the country demanding a night-time coronavirus curfew be lifted.

The protests over the 21:00 and 05:00 curfew started on Tuesday and continued into the night, their severity prompting an appeal for calm by a major Muslim leader.