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New details deepen the Arshad Sharif death mystery

Web DeskOctober 27, 2022202 comments

Web Desk (LTN NEWS): Kenyan journalists have asked questions and found out new information about the death of Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif.

A senior investigative reporter for Nation Media Group wrote in a story that police say the person in Mr Sharif’s car shot at GSU officers.

“The Nation, trying to figure out what happened before Sharif was shot, has found that the journalist and Mr. Kurram Ahmed spent Sunday afternoon at Ammodump Kwenia, an entertainment complex with a shooting range that is popular with Pakistani gun fans. It is in Kamukuru, which is 85 kilometres south of Nairobi. It is on a road that connects to another road. Sharif was staying with Mr. Ahmed’s family in Westlands, Nairobi. He has a Kenya Revenue Authority Pin number for taxpayers, which means he has been in Kenya for a while. Mr. Ahmed is the owner of the Toyota Land Cruiser that the two of them were driving that day,” the report said.

It also said, “It is thought that the two men left Kwenia around 8 p.m. and went to Nairobi.”

When they got to the main road, GSU officers stopped them. According to the police, they were there because someone had seen a stolen car in the area.

The police had different stories about what happened. At first, they said that Mr Sharif and his brother disobeyed orders at a checkpoint. Later, they said that Mr Sharif’s brother “shot at” an officer and hurt him.

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It said that police were forced to shoot back because of what happened. “He was told to stop, but he refused and opened fire on our officers,” the report said, citing an unnamed police official. This caused the officers to chase after the car as it sped toward Nairobi.

The article also asked why the police, who had their car at the roadblock and were allegedly shot at by the people in the Toyota Land Cruiser, did not chase after them.

Brian Obuya, a Kenyan investigative journalist, said on Twitter that the shot that killed Mr Sharif was “precisely fired through the car’s rear-view mirror.”

He said that Mr Sharif’s car was shot nine times, with four bullets going to the left and one through the right tyre. Obuya had also said earlier that the dead journalist’s body was found at the Chiromo Mortuary in Kenya, which is 78 km from where the police say the shooting happened.

Mike Sonko, who used to be the governor of Nairobi, said that Kenyan police should not be blamed for Mr Sharif’s death. He said that the police were “tricked” into shooting the Pakistani man because they thought he had stolen a car. He thought Mr Sharif was being followed by a “Pakistani killer squad” because he was looking into a group of Pakistani politicians laundering money.

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