Haila was Shot dead while visiting a friend house for dinner.
When he left their home in Moyale to Nairobi in 2018, Haila Asanake had only one dream: to get a job and support his family.
He had never been to school. His mother had died and the father was sickly and poor. Haila's uncle took care of him and his two siblings.
At Huruma in the city, the 17-year-old was lucky to get a temporary job as an apartment caretaker and he settled. But Haila's life was cut short when a stray bullet hit him. He died while undergoing treatment.
Haila was watching a scuffle between police and members of the public from a balcony on the third floor of a residential building in Huruma. A police officer who was scaring away the crowd that had charged at them accidentally shot him.
Haila’s uncle Abraham Cheme, who had been taking care of the deceased bef...