{"id":6310,"date":"2013-12-21T06:39:12","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T11:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=6310"},"modified":"2013-12-21T06:39:12","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T11:39:12","slug":"kenyas-amnesty-international-director-shot-and-seriously-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/6310","title":{"rendered":"Kenya’s Amnesty International Director Shot and Seriously Injured"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Kenya’s Amnesty International country director,\u00a0Justus Nyang\u2019aya was shot and seriously injured in his residence in Rongai, Nairobi,\u00a0on\u00a0Wednesday morning and is currently recovering in a\u00a0hospital, Amnesty International revealed on Friday.<\/p>\n

The incident is currently under police investigation. A colleague at Amnesty International Kenya said gunmen raided Mr Nyang\u2019aya\u2019s home and stole cash and valuables.<\/p>\n

Colm \u00d3 Cuanach\u00e1in, Senior Director of Movement Building at Amnesty International said\u00a0\u201cEveryone at Amnesty International sends their best wishes to Justus and his family. We are all extremely thankful that he is now out of danger and we extend our very best wishes for a speedy recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nairobi county commander Benson Kibue also confirmed that\u00a0Mr Nyang\u2019aya is admitted to a city hospital in a stable condition after he was shot three times, including on the chest.<\/p>\n

Gunmen, police say, raided his house and robbed the family of cash and other valuables before shooting him. They then escaped, and the\u00a0police are yet to make any arrests. \u201cWe are yet to establish the motive of the shooting but are investigating,\u201d Mr Kibue said.<\/p>\n

A witness, Mr Kibet Chebii, said he was returning\u00a0from visiting the victim\u2019s neighbor in Acacia estate Kajiado County,\u00a0when he heard gunshots and alerted the police. Police rushed to the scene and also recovered two bullet heads and a spent cartridge of 9mm calibre.<\/p>\n

Just two days ago, Mr Nyang\u2019aya attended a function at the Law Society of Kenya offices where he awarded lawyers who offer pro\u00a0bono services in Nairobi,\u00a0according to Diaspora Messenger News Media, the community center for Kenyans in Diaspora.<\/p>\n

The lawyers awarded included Elisha Ongoya, a constitutional lawyer, Tony Mulekyo and John Chigiti, who represented hundreds of Muthurwa residents facing eviction and also acted for refugees.<\/p>\n

Last Wednesday, in the same Ongata Rongai area, gunmen also attacked the Turkana Women County representative Joyce Akai Emanikor at the gate of her residence. She was however not injured nor was anything stolen from her.<\/p>\n

Ms Emanikor was being driven to her residence in Villa estate when she was\u00a0confronted by four men, one armed with a pistol. The gang first attacked the guard at the gate but her bodyguard fired five rounds from his revolver before the gang escaped.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Mr Kibue also said that a suspected mugger was early Wednesday morning shot dead along Kirinyaga Road. His accomplices however escaped on foot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kenya’s Amnesty International country director,\u00a0Justus Nyang\u2019aya was shot and seriously injured in his residence in Rongai, Nairobi,\u00a0on\u00a0Wednesday morning and is currently recovering in a\u00a0hospital, Amnesty International revealed on Friday. The incident is currently under police investigation. A colleague at Amnesty…<\/span> Read more ›<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[498,4966],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6310"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}