Mother of Embu Brothers Overwhelmed by Brief as Sons Laid to Rest

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The mother of the slain Embu brothers fell to the ground and broke down to tears after receiving the bodies of her two sons at Kianjakoma primary school where the funeral service was held.

Pictures from the emotional sendoff unmasked the pain Catherine Nyawira has been going through since Benson Njiru and Emmanuel Mutura died on Sunday night, 1st August. Njiru taking an engineering course while Mutura was studying law.

The brothers died at the hands of police who had arrested them for breaking the curfew. They were seized shortly after closing a pork butchery they had opened on the day they met their deaths.

Call for justice dominated the last honours for the duo, with various speakers demanding speedy investigations.

National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi said, “as a nation, we should feel repulsed because the lives of our children matter. We need order in this country”.

Until now, no one had been arrested in connection to their deaths, but police say investigations are ongoing.

The police had initially reported that the two jumped from a vehicle, but witnesses’ accounts contradicted the version.

The eyewitnesses said the police hit the victims with a baton in the head when they tried to escape. Police bosses in Embu were transferred following violent protests two saw two people shot dead and a police car burnt to ashes.

An autopsy report revealed that they succumbed to injuries inflicted in the head and limbs.

Interior Cabinet Secretary met the family of Wednesday and assured Njiru and Mutura’s parents that any uniformed officer involved would be brought to book.

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