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A 17-Year-Old Went to Pick Up His School Uniform. His Mother Found Him in a Mortuary, Listed as Unidentified.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

Nanyuki, Kenya<\/strong> \u2014 Lucy Kagure spent two days searching hospitals and police stations for her missing son. She found him in a mortuary, tagged as an unidentified male. His name was Sylvester Muigai Ndung’u. He was 17. And according to witnesses, police shot him in the head.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

“When I found him, half of his head had been split open. His clothes were soaked in blood,” Kagure told the BBC.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Muigai is the third person killed amid protests against a controversial US-backed plan to build a 50-bed Ebola quarantine centre at Laikipia Air Base \u2014 a facility intended to house American citizens affected by the ongoing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

He Wasn’t Even There to Protest<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Muigai left home to collect his school uniform from his aunt. He walked into a war zone.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Demonstrators had planned a peaceful march to deliver a petition demanding the facility be relocated. Police blocked access to the site. Clashes erupted. Tear gas, water cannons, roadblocks, bonfires \u2014 and, witnesses say, live ammunition.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Muigai got caught in the middle of it and never came home.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Local police commander Daniel Kitavi told the BBC authorities are waiting for a post-mortem to confirm the cause of death. Family members say officers suggested he may have been killed by a tear-gas canister, not a bullet. Witnesses say otherwise.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

A Mother Who Earned Ksh 300 a Day to Keep Her Son in School<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

Kagure raised Muigai alone. Three hundred Kenya shillings a day \u2014 that’s Ksh 300, roughly $2.30 \u2014 doing casual labour. She got him from nursery school to Form Three.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

“I brought him up from nursery school to form three, and then they just killed him,” she said through tears.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

His family described him as well-behaved, always helping around the house. A church leader said he dreamed of becoming a priest.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Now his mother has one demand: “I want justice for my boy.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The Government Defends the Deal. The Courts Said Stop. Construction Continued Anyway.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

This is the part that should make every Kenyan angry.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Last month, the High Court ordered construction of the facility halted after a rights group filed a case arguing it posed “grave and imminent risks”<\/strong> to public health. Satellite imagery obtained by the BBC shows construction has continued regardless.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

A US official acknowledged the court case last week but said the administration was “optimistic we can resolve objections.”<\/strong> Translation: they’re not stopping.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

President William Ruto defended the plan, saying refusing the US request would be “inhuman.” He called on Kenyans not to “politicise” the Ebola issue and warned politicians against “reckless” talk.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

But Kenyans aren’t politicising a health issue \u2014 they’re demanding transparency about a foreign military installation being built on their soil, over a court order, while their government tells them to calm down.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Police Accused of Excessive Force. No Response from Authorities.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

The Kenya Human Rights Commission has formally accused police of using excessive force, live ammunition, and conducting arbitrary arrests<\/strong> during Tuesday’s demonstrations. The authorities have not responded to those allegations.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Three people are dead. A mother is grieving. And the facility that sparked all of this is still being built.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

“The police used too much force,” Kagure said. “Are they not parents too?”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

That question deserves an answer. So does hers about justice.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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