Senate team set to probe extra-judicial killings
A Senate committee is scheduled to visit various police stations and dumping sites in Nairobi City County and its environs as it seek to unravel cases of extra-judicial killings and enforced disappearances of Kenyans.
The Senate Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights is also slated to meet with stakeholders in Garissa, Kisumu, Eldoret, Nyeri and other areas of interest to the inquiry.
This follows the shooting, earlier last month of Daniel Mburu, a boda boda operator in Embakasi, Nairobi at the Mama Lucy Hospital after a scuffle.
“On March 18th, we will go around Nairobi and also visit Kisumu, specifically, Kondele and Nyalenda slums,” Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei, who chairs the committee told People Daily yesterday.
“We shall also visit Garissa and Mandera in North Eastern to deal with issues of forced disappearance in the guise of fighting terrorism,” he added.
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Cherargei said the visits will help his committee unravel executions which include deaths resulting from torture or ill-treatment in prison or detention and deaths resulting from enforced disappearances or excessive use of force by law-enforcement officials among others.
Among the activities the committee has lined up include site visits to regions within Nairobi City County, which have become notorious for extra-judicial killings.
They include but not limited to Kamukunji, Mathare, Huruma, Kamukunji, Eastleigh, Dandora, Kayole, Mukuru, Korogocho, Kibera, and Githurai.
“We were given areas and police stations, like Kamukunji among others, where the killer cops are known by the public.
We also intend to visit some of the police stations. I think Eldoret Central Police station was also mentioned among many others,” the Senator held.
A recent report by IPOA indicates the agency had by February 29, 2020, a total of 107 people have been killed by police officers in the last 15 months in the worrying case of extra judicial killings.
