A Kibera family is demanding justice after their son Abbass Mohammed was lynched. Abbass was attacked on Monday evening.
A resident stated:
A BODA BODA RIDER SHOUTED THAT HE (ABBASS) WAS A THIEF AND A MOB GATHERED AND BEAT HIM, LEAVING HIM FOR DEAD.
Abbass was taken to Kenyatta National Hospital but succumbed to injuries.
He is survived by parents Weni Mohammed, Fatuma Kassed and brother Ali Mohammed, a student at Zetech University in Ruiru.
Weni, who works in Saudi Arabia, arrived in the country on Tuesday after learning of his firstborn’s death. Abbass worked in a shop along Ngong Road.
Fatuma said she and her son were very close.
ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON ABBASS CALLED ME AND TOLD ME THAT HE MISSES ME. HE TOLD ME HE WOULD PASS BY HIS GRANDMOTHER’S HOUSE IN THE EVENING AND ATTEND OUR WEEKLY MEETING.
She continued:
WHEN I NOTICED ABBASS HAD NOT ARRIVED, I ASKED MY BROTHER WHY HE HAD NOT SHOWED UP. MY BROTHER FOUND HIS ROOM OPENED. THAT WAS WHEN MY BROTHER RECEIVED A CALL THAT HE WAS BEING BEATEN.
Most of Abbass’s family and close friends described him as jovial and sociable.
Last month, the Nubian Rights Forum and council of elders complained of extrajudicial killings and harassment. The complaint followed the stabbing to death of Jaffer Salim on February 11 over what was described as a love triangle. The case is still under investigation.
In December last year, Calton Maina, a 23-year-old university student, was gunned down in Kibera by police who claimed he was a gangster.
Nubian council of elders chairman Abdul Faraj defended Maina as:
A ROLE MODEL TO YOUNG PEOPLE. IT IS REGRETTABLE THAT THE AREA POLICE BOSS SAYS THE BOY WAS KILLED IN A ROBBERY MISSION.