Kenyan police stand accused of more than 500 killings. A UN investigator lays the blame squarely on two senior criminal justice figures. The Commissioner of police and attorney general are both said to act with impunity.
“Hussein Ali, the police commissioner appointed by President Mwai Kibaki from the military nearly five years ago, saying he had failed to respond adequately to any of the allegations of extrajudicial killings, and refused even to answer basic questions such as the size of the police force. Ali’s “immediate dismissal” should be the first step in police reforms, Alston said.
Referring to Attorney General Amos Waki, who has kept his job since 1991 — a period of unchecked high-level corruption in the country — Alston said: “Mr Wako is the embodiment in Kenya of the phenomenon of impunity”. Kibaki, who has a record of refusing to censure those close to him, regardless of the offence, also came in for strong criticism.”
Worrying too is that fact that the a whistle blower, policeman Bernard Kiriinya, has died in mysterious circumstances. Bernard Kiriinya was in hiding under government protection.
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