DEMOGRAPHICS

Male

OCCUPATION

Collected and sold plastics

DATE OF INCIDENT

June 1, 2020 

LOCATION

Mathare, Nairobi

STATUS

Dead

A 51-year-old man, known by the community as Vaite was killed in Mathare 3c, around 7:40pm. Vaite was shot 3 times at close range, 2 bullets to his thigh and 1 to his lower abdomen. The police officers were alleging enforcing the curfew, but Vaite was a homeless man and would sleep by the roadside, at the same spot where he was shot. It is alleged that the police officers fled the scene after they shot Vaite, leaving him to bleed to death.

Vaite was well-known by the community, as he would collect and sell plastics during the day, and would sleep outside at night.  He was a university educated automotive engineer, who suffered a mental breakdown, 10 years ago, after him and his wife split up.

DEMOGRAPHICS

Male, 55

OCCUPATION

 Tailor

DATE OF INCIDENT

May 17th 2007

LOCATION

Nairobi

STATUS

Dead

Was arrested following a shootout incident near his shop. Was taken to Kamkunji Police station though there’s no record of him being held there. His kin found his body at Nairobi City Mortuary. They were told he was trying to escape custody and shot several times.