The Kenya Human Rights Commission on Thursday termed slain Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif’s killing a clear-cut, planned assassination.
Rights commission chairman Martin Mavenjina made the comments while speaking to Geo News journalist Murtaza Ali Shah. This, he said, was an inside job.
“The whole thing smacks of an inside job,” he said. The rights commission chairman said Kenya police were notorious for extra-judicial killings. The force, Mavenjina said, was “guilty as charged.” He then, proceeded to clinically unravel the police “mistaken identity” version.
Sharif, a popular journalist, was killed in Kenya on October 23. Local police billed Arshad’s killing a case of ‘mistaken identity’ while social media was rife with accusations. His wife Javeria, separately, reiterated calls for the family’s right to privacy be respected. Kenya media, separately, has not been buying the police version (of events). Kenya police, while earlier claiming the journalist was attacked after the vehicle he was travelling in failed to stop at a picket on Tuesday tweaked the version presented earlier. The force, in its latest stance, said Arshad had been killed in an exchange of fire.
