Planet Earth

It was on a Monday morning, which was a day for everyone in this county to celebrate and remember the heroes who fought for independence but for me it turned to be a mourning day to remember.

 Life looked sophisticated and boring. The sun was above the Eastern horizon, birds flew with joy as they sung their sweet melodies.

The bad news about the death of my two friends John and Njoroge made my temperature rise up to 28 degrees because they were shot dead by the police claiming that they were ‘Mungiki’ members of which they were not, instead they were members of Globe Street Association who lives and works on streets.

This is Njoroge with his friend's baby.(photo by Elvis Majani)

I remember the last day with them like it was yesterday because I was with them last on 15 October on a forum of the Streets Associations, which was about from streets to microphone. The amazing thing is that they raised their voices on that forum about issues affecting them which included: police harassment, drug abuse, sexual abuse and environment.

This is John. (Photo by Kristina Rosinsky)

I remember the performing a skit about police harassment. They also said that since January up to now this year, the number of those who have been shot dead by the police has increased from six to eight still been accused of Mungiki members.

Mungiki is a kikuyu word which means togetherness and the Mungiki members say that they like peace, working together but the government believes they are bad people who like crime. If this continues our brothers and sisters who lives and work on streets will be on the dark side of life since they are been shot for no good reason.

I ‘m pleading to the government of Kenya to take action and do investigation first before shooting someone especially our young brothers and sister who leaves and work on the streets.