New report reveals police officers killed 130 people last year

Civil society groups under the umbrella ‘Missing Voices’ say there has been a significant drop in extra-judicial killings and enforced disappearances in the country.

A report released on Friday revealed that 152 cases of police killings and enforced disappearances were documented last year; 130 cases were police killings, and 22 enforced disappearances.

Nairobi County led with 53 cases of police killings and enforced disappearances reported in the region.

Lamu recorded 15 cases, Kiambu and Nakuru counties came third and fourth with 13 and 12 cases respectively.

The organisations want laws on enforced disappearances to be enacted or amended to criminalize the act as they called on the investigating body to expedite cases of police killings to give justice to the victims’ families.