A heartbroken father is seeking answers over the shooting of his 10-year old son that took place last Friday after riots emerged at Kamukunji, approximately two kilometres from where the boy was.
The son, Destiny Mumo, was playing together with his friends at the Neci Educational Centre when he got shot in the head.
Destiny is reported to have tried to stand up and walk to safety after being shot.
“We saw him falling down, so he tried standing up on his own to walk. He went to the teachers who sit here and fell down when he reached there. (akajaribu kujiamsha yeye mwenyewe, so akaendelea ku-walk, ju kuna teachers who sit here so akafika pale akaanguka chini),” Lameck Omariba, Destiny's teacher, told Citizen TV.
The blood on his body was said to have been coming out of Destiny's ears when he was found the thought he had been hit by a stone
Jacob Gathumbi, the boys father, is a heartbroken man who claims he cannot provide answers to his other children who keep on asking about what happened to their brother.
“He has been paralysed, the bullet is in the brain and it cut the eyes; the eyes have turned. I had placed my hopes in my life on him, seeing his life come to an end, it is better that I also die. (Amekuwa paralysed penye risasi iko iko katikati ya ubongo penye iko imekata macho; macho imegeuka…nilikuwa nimeweka matumaini yangu kwake…yote ndani ya maisha yangu, na kuona maisha yake inakwisha hata heri mimi nife…..),” the father stated.
The doctors at Kenyatta National Hospital claim the bullet is still in Destiny's head in the brain. The father has reported the matter at Pangani police station.