The General Service Unit of Kenya has refuted the claim that sniper fire killed journalist Arshad Sharif. Kenya’s General Service Unit has verified that the Nairobi police have begun an inquiry and will issue a report within 24 hours.
In what the police described as a case of mistaken identity, a senior Pakistani journalist was shot to death Sunday night along the Nairobi-Magadi highway. Police fatally shot Arshad Sharif after he and his driver allegedly broke through a roadblock erected to check on vehicles traveling the route.
According to the police, they were stopped at a roadblock manned by a group of police officers as they were traveling from Magadi town to Nairobi.
According to police headquarters, the case will be handled by the Independent Policing Oversight Authority.
A senior police officer said that the shooting was true.
We had an incident of shooting which turned out to be a case of mistaken identity involving a journalist. We will release more information later
the officer said
Police say that at the roadblock, a call was made for them to stop a car that looked like the one they were driving after a carjacking in the Pangani area of Nairobi, where a child was taken hostage. When Sharif’s car arrived at the roadblock a few minutes later, they were stopped and asked to identify themselves. They allegedly drove past the roadblock without stopping.
