Victim of the recent City Park shooting, Bernard Chege, on Tuesday disclosed that police have been harassing him since the events of May 20 that left his 'companion', Janet Waiyaki dead.
Speaking for the first time since the incident, the 26-year-old Chege accused police of treating him like a suspect.
Additionally, he wondered why police have been demanding that he gives them samples for his DNA testing.
He also claimed that in the past few days, he had to be transferred from one ward to another at Avenue Hospital in Parklands, Nairobi trying to hide from the police officers whom he noted wanted him to 'sign some documents.'
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Chege told Nation journalists: "I’m told they want to confirm if it was me who was there (at City Park). It’s the same police who got me from the car with bullet wounds. How can I be a suspect? And they are forcing me to sign (a document) saying (that) if I don’t comply they will use force."
"Let the Inspector-General of Police (Joseph Boinnet) do his job and do it right. I’m getting a lot of pressure here in the hospital. My wounds haven’t healed, but the police are always here," he added.
According to the report, during their visit to the victim (Chege), they were able to spot a number of police cars with private number plates at the hospital whose mission was unknown.
According to the family lawyer Gitau Gikonyo, police had even gone to an extent of asking hospital staff to extract samples from Mr Chege.
Mr Gikonyo exclaimed: "There is a procedure through which DNA tests are done. As a police officer, you don’t do a letter to a hospital directing one of the health workers to remove samples and if that patient is not complying, you want to apply force.
"If there are samples that they require, they know the law. And they should be able to follow that law and we’ll be able to advise our client whether it is self-incriminating or not. But if there are reasons for him to provide samples, we have no problem with that," he asserted.
Mr Chege's mother Faith Wangeci noted that he was disappointed by police actions after the incident.
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