The family of a county employee, Taufiq Abdallah, has revealed the final moments their kin shared with his friends before his demise on Sunday, July 10 within Kuze area old town, Mombasa county.
Speaking to the media, Abdulrahman Amana, the victim's uncle, intimated that Abdallah and his friends had slaughtered a goat on early Sunday morning before making plans to go to the mosque for Eid ul-Adha prayers.
He noted that three armed gunmen appeared from nowhere on a motorbike and opened fire on the 27-year-old, shooting him multiple times. The attackers are said to have fled the scene, leaving Abdallah laying in a pool of blood.
Amana wondered about the motive for the assailants to end the life of their kin, whom he acknowledged, had a bright future.
"Abdallah and his friends had made plans to go to the nearby mosque for Eid ul-Adha prayers before the incident occurred. We don't know the motive behind the heinous act," Amana stated, noting that the judgment is left in Allah's hands.
The family urged the police to expeditiously probe the matter and bring the suspects to book and not count out any possible lead.
"We speculate that the suspects could either be crooks or part of a plan by powerful people in the society. However, we are all aggrieved by the heinous act," Omar Shariff, a resident of Old Town stated.
A post-mortem carried out on Abdallah's body at the coast general hospital revealed that he was shot in the chest and abdomen multiple times.
The detectives also retrieved CCTV footage from the area in a bid to recover crucial information that could lead to the suspects' apprehension.
Abdallah was laid to rest on Sunday, July 10, according to Muslim traditions.
According to the latest survey by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) titled Economic Survey 2022, there was a 16.7 percent rise in criminal cases reported to the police.
Theft cases were the most reported crime with 35.1 percent, followed by criminal damage with 31.1 percent.
The likes of breaking-ins, economic crimes, homicides and robbery recorded 17 percent, 14.8 percent, 5.5 percent and 3 percent respectively.
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