Babu Owino Visits Victims of Police Brutality at KNH, Condemns ‘Deliberate’ Attacks on Protesters

Embakasi East MP Babu Owino has strongly condemned what he described as “a massacre” following a visit to Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) on Wednesday morning, where he checked on victims of police brutality injured during recent anti-government protests.

According to the MP, 16 young Kenyans were admitted to KNH with various gunshot injuries sustained during demonstrations. While nine of the victims have since been discharged, seven remain hospitalized, with two in critical condition. One of the critically injured victims is the young man captured in viral footage being shot in cold blood by a police officer along Moi Avenue in Nairobi CBD.

“What I witnessed today is nothing short of a massacre,” Owino said in a statement issued shortly after the hospital visit. “One patient has seven gunshot wounds to the back. Two others were shot in the eye. Another has a gunshot wound in the leg. One was shot in the neck, and another in the lower back.”

The vocal legislator did not mince his words, describing the injuries as evidence of “deliberate, targeted attacks on unarmed civilians”, and demanding accountability from the highest office in the land.

“This is not the Kenya we want. No Kenyan should be hunted down for expressing their views or for standing up for their future,” he stated.

“The use of live bullets against protesters, many of whom were peacefully exercising their constitutional rights, is criminal and must be condemned in the strongest possible terms.”

Babu Owino called on President William Ruto to take full responsibility for the ongoing police violence, accusing the government of issuing shoot-to-kill orders and remaining silent as innocent lives are lost.

“The blood of these young men and women is on the hands of those who gave the shoot-to-kill orders — and silence at the highest level of government is complicity.”

In his final remarks, the MP vowed to continue standing with victims and Kenyans at large in the fight for justice, adding that he and others would not be intimidated into silence.

“We will not be cowed. We will not stop demanding justice. And we will not stop standing with the people of Kenya until those responsible are held to account.”