This followed the discovery that his brain was still swelling despite the initial operation.
“We’ve been visiting him to check on his condition, but from what we see, nothing has changed. He doesn’t respond, even to touch,” said his father, Jonah Kariuki, who is also a hawker near the Railways Station in Nairobi’s city centre.
“He’s still on life support, and while his heart is beating, only the doctors can fully explain his condition. It’s emotionally draining, watching someone who was once full of life now lying helplessly, sustained by machines.”
Family spokesperson Emily Wanjiru, who has a medical background, added that Kariuki’s brain was severely damaged on the left side, an area critical to human functioning.
“That means his life will never be the same again, it is totally ruined because the bullet pierced through it,” Wanjiru explained.
Kariuki was shot at close range in Nairobi’s CBD by a police officer while selling masks to protesters demanding justice for Albert Ojwang, who died in police custody.
