Thousands sign justice for AKA petition
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A petition calling for justice for slain South African rapper Kiernan ‘AKA’ Forbes has garnered close to 10 000 signatures.
Started by a woman named Lelo N, the petition is addressed to KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, national police commissioner Fannie Masemola and Police Minister Bheki Cele, and expresses the sentiments of many South Africans fed up with crime levels in the country.
AKA was gunned down outside the Wish restaurant in Florida Road last month. His former manager and longtime friend, Tebello ‘Tibz’ Motsoane, was also shot and killed.
In the petition, Lelo recalls how a hitman walked into their home and fired several shots at her father.
“Unlike AKA, my father had to go through excruciating pain of knowing what was happening to him. Bleeding and perhaps losing air, he tried to flee to one of the other rooms in the house as the hitman followed him. He shot through the door of one of the rooms that my father had ran into when trying to call an unresponsive emergency number.
“The hitmen went in and shot, hitting him with another bullet in his hand as God knows how was trying to fight the hitman off.”
She said despite her father surviving the shooting, he became a quadriplegic, and three years later, he died of renal failure. Lelo said justice needed to be served.
“How many more of our siblings, fathers, mothers need to die senselessly before perpetrators are brought to book? Is it your father, your uncle or maybe your brother or your son next? Will he be going to the local super market to buy a loaf of bread and then gunned down?” she said.
This week, Cele said he is constantly updated on the murder investigation.
“It’s a matter that we can’t let rest. Unfortunately, we can’t give you blow by blow updates of what is happening, but the progress is absolutely there.”