Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko calls for enhanced security of Kenyan prosecutors, police handling high profile crimes

Kenya: The Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko wants governments to urgently look into the security of prosecutors, judicial officers and investigators handling emerging and transnational organised crimes.

Tobiko said the security of law enforcers can no longer be taken for granted in light of the upsurge in organised crimes that the officers have to deal with on a daily basis.

The DPP was reacting to the killing of Uganda’s Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, Joan Kagezi by suspected Al-Shabaab militants on Monday night.

“This incident has the potential of emboldening other organised criminal gangs on slowing down prosecutions, which could paralyse the criminal justice system,” Tobiko said in a statement to newsrooms.

He added: “To avert this, it is time decisive action is taken to ensure adequate protection is accorded to prosecutors, investigators and judicial officers.”

Tobiko said the deceased, who was also a Senior Principal State Attorney, had worked with the Kenyan and Tanzanian law enforcement agencies at the initial stages of the investigations into the Kampala bombings of 2010 by Al-Shabaab terrorists.

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