Catherine Wanjeri reveals she was targeted in recent shooting

Mediamax Journalist Catherine Wanjeri Kariuki now claims he was the target of attack after she was shot three times while covering anti-government protests in Nakuru on Tuesday.

Speaking to the media on Thursday, Wanjeri said she had been hit with a teargas canister earlier before being shot at.

“Nobody would convince me that I was not a target because it is not the first time I had been targeted. A teargas canister had hit me, but I did not report the matter, I did not escalate the matter,” she said.

Wanjeri said she had shown her colleagues the scar, which is in the same leg she was shot.

She said she had left her home at around 1:30 pm to cover the protests, with expectations that she would do her work and return home safely.

“Little did I know that I would end up in a hospital with stitches on my thigh,” she said.

Wanjeri was shot four times with three bullets lodged in her thigh.

The rubber bullets have since been removed and the doctors say she is out of the woods.

Wanjeri says she does not know how long it’s going to take her to recover or the kind of damage the scars might do to her.

She recounts that exactly seven minutes before she was shot, her mother had called her telling her to be safe.

Moments before she was shot, Wanjeri was seen helping a female police officer who was in a police van.

She was seen giving her toothpaste, to help her reduce the pains of teargas.

Wanjeri, who is recuperating at Annex Hospital in Nakuru, is positive that justice will be served to her.