In August, there was one week when police gunned down seven young men.
On 9 August, Ian Motiso sat down to take a late lunch at a kibanda in Mlango Kubwa, when a killer cop called Blacky passed by, took out his gun and shot Motiso down. Just like that.
theelephant.info/reflections/20…
On 9 August, Ian Motiso sat down to take a late lunch at a kibanda in Mlango Kubwa, when a killer cop called Blacky passed by, took out his gun and shot Motiso down. Just like that.
theelephant.info/reflections/20…
"Motiso, like many of us in Mathare, was trapped in a cycle of wage slavery. You wake up, go to job, get a salary, barely make food and rent, sleep, repeat until you die. But your work never turns into a dignified life. You’re just trapped."
"Mutiso did try to join Kazi Mtaani. Young men went to the administration to register. But in order to participate, they would first have to bribe the Chief 1,000 KES. How can you look a young unemployed man in the eye, when you know he has no job, and ask him for money?"
"Mutiso never deserved to live in a world that kept poor people powerless in order to exploit them and, when they did what they wanted to survive, killed them off. He did not deserve to be killed by the people whom we expect to protect us." theelephant.info/reflections/20…
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