Ireland University names new ‘journalism award’ after Arshad Sharif
Ireland’s Ulster University has decided to introduce an award named after senior journalist Arshad Sharif, who was murdered in Kenya’s capital Nairobi on October 23.
Ireland’s University has penned down a letter to Somiya Arshad, Arshad Sharif’s wife, seeking permission to introduce Best Investigate Journalist award named after the slain journalist.
Ulster University’s staff expressed deep sorrow and grief over the killing of senior journalist Arshad Sharif.
Dr Colm Murphy, Subject Leader, said that the varsity will honor Arshad Sharif’s memory by giving an award named after him each year to one of its students for the best articles produced in investigative journalism.
In the letter, Dr. Murphy informed that varsity has added Arshad Sharif’s name to its Tree of Hope in the university oratory in Coleraine as the “institute remembers him and his family at this time of the year”.
Sharif was killed on the night of October 23 in Kenya by the Kenyan GSU officers in mysterious circumstances as he was being driven to Nairobi.
The Kenyan police contradicted its statement by first saying that Sharif was killed in a case of mistaken identity, but later it alleged that shots were fired at the police from inside Sharif’s car and he was killed when the response unit fired back.
