David Chege: Protester shot dead outside parliament laid to rest in Gatundu

Chege was shot dead outside Kenya's parliament as a crowd of protesters overwhelmed anti-riot police, breaking into the August house as the protests intensified.

His send-off attracted a smattering of Kenyan activists, among them, Haki Africa's Khalid Hussein, Boniface Mwangi and Hanifa Adan. 

Chege who was shot in the head was until his demise a celebrated IT professional and a Sunday school teacher at the Jubilee Christian Church. 

Politicians were conspicously missing from the funeral in which a mourners decried police brutality, and draped the National flag on their necks. 

During the burial activists presented his family with a flag, saying that the late Chege had paid the ultimate price for his patriotism. 

Activist Boniface Mwangi implored Kenyans to sustain the fight against bad leadership, urging them to replace the portrait of President Ruto with a photo of the Kenyan flag. 

The government maintains that 25 people were killed in protests across the country, disputing the figures by Rights Groups which place the death toll much higher at 43. 

According to official figures from the government, some 400 people sustained injuries in the three-week protests.