By PETER MUSA 

The family of a man said to have been shot dead intends to sue the Attorney-General and the Police Commissioner over the death.

The family told a press conference at Chester House, Nairobi, that 36-year-old Duncan Onyango Odera was shot at close range by officers attached to the Ruaraka Police Post last December 26. He was married with two children.

"Police dragged Onyango out of a bar after he quarrelled with a patron in Kariobangi North and shot him shortly after," Mr Shem Odera said.

Mr Odera, who was accompanied by the People Against Torture co-ordinator, Mr Kang'ethe Mungai, his sister, Ms Grace Ogonda, and a brother, Mr George Ogweno, said they had been denied the results of the post-mortem examination conducted by the chief government pathologist, Dr Kirasi Olumbe. The family lawyer, Mr George Okach, was also present.

The family members said they would approach Dr Ling Kituyi, of the Independent Medico-legal Unit (IMLU), for a private and independent post-mortem examination.

Mr Odera said police dumped their brother's body at the City Mortuary on December 27, last year, a day after he died, but never bothered to inform or trace the family. 

"However, we have, through our own initiative, established that he died from a bullet wound inflicted to the right side of the chest," they said. 

"We reported the matter to the Kasarani Police Station but little has been done to help us secure justice for our slain brother," Ms Ogonda said.

Mr Odera said the three police officers implicated in the killing were yet to be arrested.