Wounds of June: Samuel Kinyanjui still has a bullet lodged in his thigh

Imagine living with a bullet lodged in your body, injecting yourself at least twice a day, or swallowing ten pills just to numb the pain. This is the harsh reality for some of the victims of police excesses during the anti-government protests of June and July 2024. They feel abandoned, left to bear the physical and emotional scars of one of Kenya’s darkest chapters, when young people took to the streets to stand up against what they saw as bad governance. In our continuing series wounds of June, Gatete Njoroge spoke to some of the survivors, whose lives have never been the same.