12-Year-Old Pupil Shot By Police During Saba Saba Demos Is Dead
Bridget Njoki Wainaina, 12, was struck by a stray police bullet inside their home in Ndumberi, Kiambu, on July 7. The country is mourning her death.
Wainaina, who had missed school due to the anxiety following the July 7 Saba Saba rallies, was killed by a stray bullet from the police while she was in the comfort of her own house.
🚨 Bridget Wainaina, a Class 7 pupil, succumbs to Police stray bullet wound after being struck inside her home in Ndumberi, Kiriguini, Kiambu County. pic.twitter.com/KXnrE8cSMZ
— Cyprian, Is Nyakundi Kibiru (@C_NyaKundiH) July 8, 2025
Wainaina’s mother told journalists about the terrible events that led to her daughter’s death.
According to the mother, she was in the house with her children around 6:20 p.m. when they heard a big crash.
The family rushed her to St. Bridget’s Hospital, where physicians attempted resuscitation and prepared her for surgery.
They noticed that her heart had stopped beating. After several futile resuscitation attempts, the physicians had no choice but to pronounce her dead.
“It was around 6:20 pm when we heard a loud bang. On checking on my daughter, I saw that she had blood on her hands,” the mother narrated.
Mother of 12-year-old Bridget Njoki, shot dead by a stray police bullet in the quiet village of Kiriguini in Ndumberi, Kiambu County during Saba Saba protests, narrates the final moments before her daughter died. pic.twitter.com/if4y5dhu99
— Cyprian, Is Nyakundi Kibiru (@C_NyaKundiH) July 8, 2025
“At first, I had thought something had scratched her, but upon looking carefully, I noticed she had a hole on her head. That’s when I shouted for help, and her father came in.”
The pupil’s mother, overcome with grief and pain, has condemned the events that led to Wainaina’s death.
They confessed that their family has lost a highly hardworking, respectable young girl whose huge goals have vanished.
The regrettable tragedy has generated conflicting emotions from Kenyans and authorities, who have decried the country’s escalating cases of police violence.
Speaking on the tragedy, Githuguri MP Gagthoni Wamuchomba criticized it and blamed Interior CS Kipchumba Murkomen for issuing the recent shoot-to-kill order.
“I’m in pain and defeated to see many young people die from bullets during demonstrations,” Wamuchomba wrote.
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“We can confirm that the recent order to shoot to kill by the Security Minister was taken seriously. But why shoot to kill an innocent girl?”
This is not the first time a student has died as a result of the use of weapons during a protest.
On July 1, 2024, during the Generation Z protests, 12-year-old Kennedy Onyango died in the same way.
On that fateful day, Kennedy had left the house to retrieve a book he was sharing with a nearby student.
Unfortunately, he died on the way after being shot eight times as the protests turned violent, in a night filled with violence, gunfire, and looting.
12-Year-Old Pupil Shot By Police During Saba Saba Demos Is Dead
