IPOA Breaks Silence After Pakistani Journalist Was Killed By Kenyan Police

Independent Police Oversight Authority (IPOA has launched a Probe into a shooting incident that left a Pakistani journalist dead in Kenya. 

Arshad Sharif is said to have been gunned down along the Magadi-Nairobi Highway Sunday night after the driver of a vehicle he was travelling in allegedly defied calls by police to stop at a roadblock.

The shooting incident has reportedly been termed as that of mistaken identity by Kenyan police

Responding to the Case, IPOA has said that they have dispatched their rapid response team to investigate the killing of the journalist.

The Authority has assured Kenyans of its full commitment to ensuring the truth about the matter is out.

"There is an alleged police killing of a Pakistani national at Kajiado county last evening. Our rapid response team has already been dispatched to handle the matter," IPOA chair Anne Makori said.

According to local reports, the journalist and his driver are said to have been on their way to Nairobi from Magadi when they were implored to stop at the roadblock by police officers stationed there

However, his driver allegedly breached the roadblock and Mr. Sharif was shot in the head and killed.

The details surrounding his death remain scanty with the wife saying he was shot in Kenya on Sunday. 

“I lost friend, husband and my favourite journalist [Arshad Sharif] today, as per police he was shot in Kenya,” she tweeted.

Sharif was previously associated with ARY News and had gone to Dubai after resigning from the channel.