Abbass Mohammed was attacked with a machete allegedly by a boda boda rider from Silanga.
A resident said, “The boda boda rider shouted that he (Abbass) was a thief and a mob gathered and beat him, leaving for dead.”
Abbass succumbed to excessive bleeding at Kenyatta National Hospital.
He is survived by parents Weni Mohammed and Fatuma Kassed and brother Ali Mohammed, a student at Zetech University in Ruiru.
Weni, who works in Saudi Arabia, arrived yesterday after learning of his firstborn's death.
Abbass worked for Alata shop along Ngong Road.
Fatuma said her son was close to her. “My son and I were very close. On Sunday afternoon Abbass called me and told me that he misses me. He told me he would pass by his grandmother's house in the evening and attend our weekly meeting.
“When I noticed that Abbass has not arrived I asked my brother why he had not showed up. My brother found his room opened. That was when my brother received a call that he was being beaten.”
Family and friends described him as jovial and sociable.
Last month, the Nubian Rights Forum and council of elders complained of extrajudicial killings and harassment. The complaint followed the stabbing to death of Jaffer Salim on February 11 over what was described as love triangle. The case is still under investigation.
In December last year, Calton Maina, a 23-year-old university student, was gunned down in Kibera by police who claimed he was a gangster.
Nubian council of elders chairman Abdul Faraj defended Maina as "a role model to young people. It is regrettable that the area police boss says the boy was killed in a robbery mission.”
- The Star
