Protesters who were shot during anti-IEBC demonstrations on Monday have narrated what transpired between them and the officers leading to deaths and several injuries.
Speaking from their hospital beds in different locations, the protesters argued that they had been hit by police bullets while conducting personal businesses with one shockingly claiming she was teargassed while inside a house.
In Homabay, four women claimed to have been shot when they were relaxing outside their homes in Shauri Yako estate while another one was being treated for trauma caused by a tear gas canister lobbed inside her house.
In Siaya, two of the demonstrators nursing injuries in hospital said that police officers fired live bullets at them after exhausting their teargas.
Felix Oduor and Fidelis Opiyo said they were hit in the stomach and chest but promised to be back in the streets on Monday if the electoral body's commissioners will not have quit.
“If I will be feeling better on Monday, I will still go to the streets. CORD leader Raila Odinga has fought for us for many years; it is now our turn to do the same,” vowed Opiyo.
Crispin Okoth, a supermarket staffer said that he was coming from a lunch break when he was shot in the chest while a hawker reported having been caught up in the mayhem while operating his business.
In the same County, a bodaboda operator claimed to have taken a customer to Siaya town when he was also hit on the chest while a jua-kali worker is nursing abdomen wounds after suffering a gunshot.
Meanwhile, 11 police officers who were injured in the melee were airlifted to Nairobi for treatment with the authorities declaring that they would not apologise for the use of force to disperse violent demonstrators.
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