British nationwide killed by car in Kenyan president’s motorcade | EUROtoday

A British nationwide has died after being hit by a car within the president of Kenya’s motorcade.

Kenya’s National Police Service (NPS) has launched an investigation into the incident, with native reviews suggesting a person was knocked down whereas trying to cross a busy street in Nairobi as President William Ruto’s motorcade handed.

Video footage reveals the motorcade dashing alongside Ngog Road as bystanders are heard screaming following the incident.

Onlookers who spoke to native media mentioned the motorcade didn’t cease after the person was struck.

Footage of the aftermath was shared on-line, exhibiting a crowd gathering across the man.

NPS spokesperson Muchiri Nyaga mentioned in a press release: “Following a road accident that occurred at Adams Arcade along Ngong Road involving a government vehicle, which resulted in the death of a pedestrian who is a foreign national, the NPS is now handling the matter and investigations have commenced.”

The spokesperson additionally urged all motorists, pedestrians and different street customers to “exercise extreme caution and adhere to traffic rules to prevent accidents”.

The Foreign Office has been contacted for remark.

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The President was travelling on Ngog Road as a part of a tour of the capital.

Ruto has been president since September 2022, and made his first official go to as president to the UK the next month.

Prior to that, he had been deputy president since 2013. He has been a member of parliament since 1997.

The president has confronted controversies, and final 12 months backed down from signing a finance invoice into legislation that will have elevated taxes after mass protests swept the nation and have become lethal, with reviews of greater than 20 individuals being killed.

Ruto was additionally investigated by the International Criminal Court over violence following the 2007 elections, which left a whole bunch lifeless.

Ruto denied homicide, deportation and persecution costs and in 2016 the ICC dropped its case in opposition to him, citing inadequate proof, however refused to aquit him.

One choose in a cut up ruling declared a mistrial attributable to a “troubling incidence of witness interference and intolerable political meddling”.

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