KMPDU boss terms his attack by police an assassination attempt!
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KMPDU Secretary General Atellah narates how he was shot by the police terming the attack an assassination attempt!
KMPDU Secretary General Atellah narrates how he was shot by the police terming the attack an assassination attempt!
Speaking from his hospital bed in Nairobi, the KMPDU chief described how an officer he identified as Evans Kangangi, the OCS of Capital Hill Police Station, shot him at close range.
Dr. Atellah was struck by a teargas canister in an incident which has sparked widespread condemnation of the excessive force used by the police.
“We were just moving down in a procession then the police came and parked in front of us and immediately, we were about 200 meters away, and the first shot he took hit my head,” recalled Dr. Atellah.
After experiencing complete chaos following his shooting, the head of the medical union now feels he was the victim of an assassination.
“I was very scared…I thought that because the bleeding was profuse and I did not know the degree of the injury. The interns picked me up and took me to a Good Samaritan who drove me to the hospital,” he explained.
KMPDU Deputy Secretary General Dr. Dennis Miskellah reiterated Dr. Atellah’s remarks saying; “This point-blank headshot had no other intention than to kill Davji, especially after the same officer had earlier aimed at the SG and shot at him.”
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“The Secretary-General suffered a head injury and underwent surgery at the Nairobi Hospital and is currently in the High Dependency Unit (HDU.”
Dr. Atellah went on to reveal that; “When I came here (Nairobi Hospital), I was stitched like 12 times…there’s internal bleeding.”
Atellah was injured on Thursday after being hit by a teargas canister while leading protests outside the Ministry of Health in Nairobi over the delayed posting of medical interns and the payment of fees for postgraduate students.
The protests ended after the Anti-Riot officers dispersed the medical interns from the Ministry of Health’s gate.
The medics marched from the Kenya Medical Association Centre in the Upper Hill area to The Ministry of Health offices and were proceeding to the National Treasury headquarters in the city centre before they were dispersed by the police.
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