Protesters break into Jamia Supermarket, loot goods; another group storm Jaramogi Oginga Hospital mortuary, vandalise property and loot equipment.
The story of vandalized Kwee Funeral Home goes that, police had transferred a body to the facility & it was rumored that it was to a victim of police bullet.
The morgue’s superintendent says the demonstrators stormed the mortuary ransacking everywhere claiming the body of a police victim had been hidden.
Gov Nyong’o says it was the work of a gang and blames police for not rushing to protect the newly launched facility.
Barely 48 hours later, protesters who turned out for the Azimio protests, vandalised property and looted equipment at the funeral home. They had accosted police officers who had brought the body of a man who had been killed by a mob in Nyamasaria.
Prof Nyong'o said goons posing as protesters, broke down a gate, damaged and looted expensive morgue equipment which he commissioned on Tuesday.
He described the attack as barbaric.
The Governor wondered why the police did not protect the facility from the gang which also carted away, computers and other valuable equipment.
The troublemakers alleged that a secondary school student was shot dead by police and his body moved by police to the JOOTRH morgue.
However, by press time, the shot student was still in the hospital.
When the rioters raided the facility, they were denied an opportunity to view the alleged body something that angered them.
Some could be seen carrying a snazzy new three-seater yellow sofa set trying to disappear into the Russian Quarters estate and across the road to the informal settlements of Manyatta.
By 6.30pm, the rioters were still milling around the facility hoping to loot more items from the facility.
Kisumu Governor, Prof Anyang' Nyong'o condemned the destruction of the funeral home claiming goons posing as protesters were the ones who broke down the gate damaged and looted expensive morgue equipment which he commissioned last week.
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