The Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) students have taken their displeasure to the streets to demand justice for a deceased fella, Danzel Omondi, whose body was found floating in an abandoned quarry on suspicion of murder over the anti-finance bill on June 25, 2024.
Danze was a third-year student pursuing his first degree in architecture at the said institution before he succumbed in a mysterious and foul manner. He’s among the 41 people who have been confirmed dead since the anti-Finance Bill protests began three weeks ago.
According to the statement from family and friends, Danzel was missing after video footage of himself and demonstrators surfaced on social media platforms, celebrating the parliament building entry, following the hashtag #occupyparliament call on the X platform.
The death of the 23-year-old is a revelation of what murder victims and abductees have been going through at the hands of non-uniformed and rogue police officers accused of working in shadows and using gruesome means to quell peaceful protesters.
A postmortem result by the government pathologists revealed that Danzel had injuries to his knees. The outcome further revealed that he succumbed to drowning. Terming it as a “foul play,” the Amnesty International Officials, led by Irungu Houghton, also said that his body had bruises on the back of his neck.
Calls are mounting for an investigation into the hands involved and for police officers who acted outside the confines of the law to be arrested for human rights violations. The Independent Police Oversight Authority (IPOA) has been calling on members of the public who witnessed the brutal incidents to report for an investigation to their office.
Kenya experienced one of its shocking anti-government protests on June 25, 2024, which began as a rejection of the controversial Finance Bill 2024 and scaled to the general need for changes across the government’s bureaucratic operations.
The protests resulted in massive losses of lives and properties across the country as youths stormed parliament buildings to oust members of parliament who had just voted in favor of the bill.
Danzel reportedly disappeared on June 27th, two days after the operation to occupy parliament, and his lifeless body was later found floating on June 6th, 2024, in the abandoned quarry in Juja town, Kimabu County.
