Police shoot dead a KCSE candidate in Kondele.

 Caroline Okello {second right} the mother of the a KCSE candidate Michael Okoth who has been shot dead by the police in Kondele this afternoon-Photo By Dickson Odhiambo.

By Dickson Odhiambo.

 October 16, 2017.

Police shoot dead a KCSE candidate in Kondele.

ONE of this Year’s Kenya Certificate of secondary Education exam’s candidate from a secondary school in Western Kenya region has been shot dead by Anti-riot police officers in Kondele area today afternoon.

 According to witnesses, the deceased Michael Okoth an 18–year-old was buying an ice cream within the area as police dispersed some crowd and he was shot in the process.

 The incident has occurred after peaceful protestors demonstrating against IEBC left the Nyanza regional IEBC offices back to Kondele after Kisumu Governor Prof Nyong’o addressed them.

The deceased was said not to be part of those demonstrating today.

An eye witness says the deceased was shot by the anti-riot police officers on the neck from behind and died on the spot after falling down.

 Part of the people the media interviewed say the boy was on his way home after buying the ice cream along the street when the incident occurred.

 They say the school boy had surrendered to the police y carrying up his hands but the officers still shot him dead.

They say their first attempt to take the body to the morgue were futile as the officers chased them away despite a vehicle belonging to the Red Cross being around.

 “One of the officers removed a knife from the pocked and slit the deceased’s throat and further removed a bullet which they took away and left the body of the deceased lying at the scene,” a witness says

He says that is when they managed to take the deceased to the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Morgue.

Caroline Okello, the mother of the deceased say her son was sent back home over Sh 10,000 school fee arrears and was in the process of getting him the money before going back to school for national exams schedule next month.

 Okello says she was with her son in the morning when he took breakfast, was just around but when it reached lunchtime and he was not around, she received messages from neighbors that his son his dead.

 “I was in the process of getting my son the remaining school fees so as to enable him go back to school to prepare for the forth-coming national examination,” she says.

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