Ruto sends personal apology to Rex Masai’s family over 2024 protest death
A presidential panel led by Prof Makau Mutua delivered the apology to Masai's mother in Kayole on Thursday. Masai was shot dead in Nairobi during the June 2024 anti-Finance Bill protests.
President William Ruto has personally apologised to the family of Rex Masai, The Eastleigh Voice reported. Masai was killed during anti-government protests in Nairobi in June 2024. Prof Makau Mutua delivered the apology on Thursday. He chairs the Panel of Experts on Compensation of Victims of Protests and Riots. The panel visited Masai's mother, known as Mama Rex Masai, at her home in Kayole. In a post on X after the visit, the panel said it had conveyed both the President's personal apology and the State's apology for the family's loss. Representatives of the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) and the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) joined the visit. The panel said the visit reaffirmed the importance of justice, healing, national reconciliation and the ongoing compensation process. According to The Eastleigh Voice, the panel did not say whether the family has received money under the State's compensation programme. A similar apology was issued to Nigel Oduor Otieno in Mathare. Otieno was injured during the 2023 cost-of-living protests. Masai died during…
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