BBC Investigation Links KDF To Gen Z Killings During Last Year’s Demos
The anti-government demonstrations on June 25, which culminated in the storming of Parliament Buildings, may have been hijacked by elements of highly trained officers outside of police units tasked with preserving peace and order.
According to a BBC investigation, the shooters during the Gen Z protests may have been members of the Kenya Defence Forces, notably the Kenya Army.
One of the important issues raised was that a shooter during the Parliament storm wore a dress code that differed significantly from all of the other plainclothes police personnel, implying that he may not have been from the police units.
KDF not so patriotic after all. According to @BBCAfrica, @kdfinfo were involved in killing GenZ protestors on June 25th.@WilliamsRuto @DefendersKE @ODPP_KE Can we get this KDF officer arrested immediately? pic.twitter.com/fT3mXsGeL7
— husseinkhalid (@husskhalid) April 28, 2025
“In the video of the officer shouting, ‘uaa!’, the shooter’s back was to the camera,” BBC reported in part.
“But the BBC compared his body armour, riot shield, and headgear with those of every police officer at the scene. In his case, he had an upturned neck guard.”
It continued: “We matched his distinctive uniform to an officer in a video recorded seconds later. There, he made sure to hide his face before firing into the crowd. We do not know his name.”
One of the shooters in the parliamentary incident is said to have been an officer who was later tracked down at Nairobi’s Central Police Station.
However, efforts to locate the officer at the Central Police Station proved impossible, raising concerns about his true station of assignment.
However, attempts to get both the National Police Service (NPS) and the station to comment on the officer’s behavior were fruitless.
NPS indicated that inquiries into police misconduct are entirely handled by the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) and that it cannot undertake its own investigations.
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Regarding charges that Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) officers were engaged in the shooting, the KDF disputed the allegations, claiming that it is a professional service dedicated to neutrality.
Following a week of protests that included an invasion of Parliament, the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) reported that 39 people had died and 361 had been injured across the country.
The protests, which resulted in the withdrawal of the Finance Bill, which planned to generate Ksh346 billion in taxes, put Kenya on the wrong track globally, with reports of human rights breaches.
So far, the only police officer in court for potential murder charges is an officer from Central Police Station, whose case was postponed on March 10 after a crucial witness asked for additional time to submit important papers in court.
BBC Investigation Links KDF To Gen Z Killings During Last Year’s Demos
