Kenya's Police Inspectorate is investigating the October 23 shooting of prominent Pakistani investigative journalist Arshad Sharif at a checkpoint. Police say the shooting of the 50-year-old journalist was a case of mistaken identity.
Officials said they mistook the vehicle driven by Sharif's brother for a vehicle linked to a child abduction in Nairobi. When the car failed to stop at the checkpoint, the vehicle was shot at.
The Kenyan Union of Journalists has spoken out against the assassination of Sharif. Its secretary-general, Charles Eric Oduor, said the police "should not have killed the journalist. They should have found a way to arrest him if they followed that car. He added that union members "we condemn him". the sharpest terms possible with murder.
Sharif fled Pakistan in August amid death threats and a series of controversial hate speech charges against him and several other journalists. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said he had spoken to Kenyan President William Ruto about the journalist's death and asked for fairness from the Kenyan authorities. and transparency in research. Anne Makori, head of Kenya's Independent Police Inspectorate, said her agency was investigating the incident and "our rapid response team has already been deployed".
Oduor said he had doubts about the circumstances under which Sharif was killed, saying: "We believe we will have an ongoing investigation in addition to what the police are telling us." In the week before Sharif's death, Ruto resolved a special police unit accused of abusing and extrajudicially killing civilians.
Four officers from the unit were arrested and put on trial on October 24 in connection with the disappearance of two Indian nationals and their Kenyan driver. However, a report released in 2020 by the IPOA said most of the cases involved police ill-treatment and killings. leave without a successful conviction.
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