- Witness accounts said Amadi and his friend were on a boda boda travelling towards Likoni ferry when they were ambushed by the police.
- A civil society report revealed that Kenyan police extrajudicially killed 187 people and forcefully disappeared 32 others in 2021.
Shee Amadi, 22, was going to pick his flight ticket when he was allegedly shot dead by police in Likoni last Thursday at around 12pm.
He was to fly to Dubai on Friday to work as a security guard.
His mother, Maridhia Rama, who spoke to the Star on Monday, said Amadi was her shining light.
“He was my everything. He carried my hopes and now they have been shattered by police bullets,” Maridhia said.
“I have left everything to God. He knows what to do with the killers of my son.”
Amadi was Maridhia’s second of six children, including five boys and a girl.
Muslims for Human Rights organisation has petitioned the Independent Police Oversight Authority to probe a potential case of extrajudicial killing.
Police and witness accounts on what transpired on the fateful day contradict.
Witness accounts said Amadi and his friend were on a boda boda travelling towards Likoni ferry when they were ambushed by police.
According to Mwalimu Bakari, Amadi’s cousin, the police overtook and blocked the boda boda before shooting Amadi.
According to a post-mortem form filled by the DCI in Likoni, Amadi was armed with a machete and when challenged to surrender, he attacked the police officers instead.
Muhuri rapid response officer Francis Auma on Monday told the Star Amadi need not have been killed, but only immobilised.
“From the accounts, we gather that Amadi must have been shot while alone or he was targeted," the officer said.
"There is no account or report of the others injured yet they were three on one motorbike, the rider and two passengers.”
A post-mortem conducted on Amadi’s body last Friday indicated that he died because of a traumatic brain damage caused by a gunshot to the head.
He was shot at least three times, in the head and chest.
“Ipoa must conduct a probe on this because we are worried this could be another case of extrajudicial killing which must be stopped,” Auma said.
On April 27, Missing Voices, a coalition of 15 Civil Society Organisations, including Muhuri, released its 2021 annual report which showed a worrying trend of increasing extrajudicial killings in the country.
The report revealed that Kenyan police extrajudicially killed 187 people and forcefully disappeared 32 others in 2021.
Each year since 2019, victims of police killings and enforced disappearances have been increasing, according to Missing Voices.
In 2019, 145 people were killed or forcefully disappeared by police.
Some 168 more victims were recorded in 2020 across the country.
Auma said on January 1 this year, police killed 16-year-old Akram Athman in Diani.
Athman left home on New Year’s eve to usher in the new year in style with friends.
He never returned.
“His body was discovered a few days later by relatives at the Coast General Teaching and Referral Hospital with bullet wounds,” Auma said.
Amadi was buried at Manyimbo cemetery in Tudor, where his family lived.
He lived in Likoni with his girlfriend whom he was planning to marry.
“It is so painful to struggle to take your child through primary, secondary and even college and then someone just comes and kills them,” Maridhia said in a resigned voice.
(edited by Amol Awuor)