Kisumu County Commissioner John Elungata has maintained the man who was killed during last Monday’s anti-IEBC protests in Kisumu was not shot by police.
This sentiment comes at a time Cord has also remained firm that demonstrations will go on twice a week as from Monday.
Mr Elungata told journalists at Tom Mboya Labour College that the man was stabbed by a sharp metallic object by one of the protesters some of who were armed with machetes.
“If I tell that that man was not killed by the police you would not believe it, but he was not,” he said as he closed a workshop by the Kenya Congress of Pentecostal Churches.
The family of Ayub Kaukau, 28, a water vendor at Kisumu Bus Park is calling for justice for their son who they said was shot in the chest.
James Imbukwa identified Mr Kaukau as his son on Tuesday.
A postmortem conducted on Wednesday revealed that he was shot on one side of the chest as the bullet raptured his heart and lungs.
Kaukau's family made a formal complaint to the Kenya Human Rights Commission and vowed to sue the government and the National Police Service Commission.
They complained that police tossed them from one office to another in what they said was an attempt to bar them from filing an official report on the death of their son.