POLICE ASSAULT A FORM THREE STUDENT

A Form Three student is nursing serious injuries after a policeman in Nyali brutally clobbered him for allegedly not wearing a mask.

The 17-year-old, whose plans to resume school on Monday, January 4, were shattered by the ordeal, was in the beach when the law enforcer assaulted him with an AK-47.

Speaking to NTV, Brian Nyaga said when he saw the policeman who was on a boda boda, he started running away from him but unfortunately, he fell down and the law enforcer alighted from the motorbike, walked to where he was and started beating him with his gun.

“He came directly to me after I fell down and he started beating me up. I told him to forgive me because there was nothing I had done,” Nyaga said.The assault led to his hospitalisation and surgery because his legs were badly injured.

“Even the doctor says it will take time before he can walk again. I do not even know when he will go back to school. I had prepared him to go back to school but he will not,” his inconsolable mother, Ann Mumbi said.Independent Policing Oversight Authority ( IPOA) said it had launched investigations into the cruel attack that now threatens Nyaga’s mobility and his love for football.

This came as 10 million learners resumed learning in their different schools on Monday.
Though the government had assured that teachers, staffers and students will be safe in school, enforcing COVID-19 rules proved difficult in the learning institutions due to the high population of learners, limited resources among other reasons.

Unfortunately, a significant number of school-going children did not report back to school due to reasons ranging from early pregnancies and marriages, child labour and lack of school fees occasioned by job losses.

Source: Tuko.co.ke