Journalists from Kenya have questioned what happened when Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif was killed and revealed new information.
According to police statements, a top investigative reporter for Nation Media Group reported that Mr. Sharif’s car’s driver fired shots at GSU cops.
“The Nation has discovered that the journalist and Mr. Kurram Ahmed spent Sunday afternoon at Ammodump@Kwenia, a leisure complex that also features a shooting range and is well-known among Pakistani gun aficionados, in an effort to reconstruct the events leading up to Sharif’s shooting.
It is situated 85 kilometres south of Nairobi on a feeder route in Kamukuru. Since Mr. Ahmed possesses a Kenya Revenue Authority Pin number for taxpayers, it suggests that he has lived in Kenya for some time. Mr. Ahmed hails from a family that was hosting Sharif in Westlands, Nairobi. According to the report, Mr. Ahmed is the registered owner of the Toyota Land Cruiser that the two were driving that day.
“It is thought that the two men departed Kwenia for Nairobi at around 8pm,” it continued. When they reached the main road, GSU officers stopped them because, according to the police, they had received reports that a stolen car had been seen nearby.
According to the investigation, police gave conflicting accounts of what happened, initially saying Mr. Sharif and his brother disobeyed instructions at a roadblock but subsequently saying Mr. Sharif’s brother “shot at” an officer and hurt him. Police were cited as claiming that the incident led to them firing back.
According to the story, which cited an unnamed police source, “He was challenged to halt but he resisted and opened fire at our policemen, triggering them to respond to the said car as it sped towards the Nairobi direction.”
The article also questioned why the police, who were stationed at the roadblock in their own car, did not pursue the Toyota Land Cruiser after its occupants allegedly fired shots at them.
The fatal shot that killed Mr. Sharif, according to Kenyan investigative journalist Brian Obuya, was “fired with precision via the rear mirror of the automobile,” he wrote on Twitter.
He claimed nine shots were fired at the car Mr. Sharif was driving, four of which struck the left and one of which punctured the right-side tyre. Obuya previously claimed that the body of the murdered journalist was discovered at Kenya’s Chiromo Mortuary, 78 kilometres away from the scene of the alleged shooting.
Mike Sonko, a former governor of Nairobi, argued that Kenyan police should not be held accountable for Mr. Sharif’s passing. He asserted that the Pakistani national was “tricked” into being shot by the police into believing that he was involved in auto theft. He thought that Mr. Sharif was being pursued by a “Pakistani murder squad” as a result of his investigation into a money-laundering scheme involving Pakistani politicians.
