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Is the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) the new toothless bulldog in town?

KENYA: This is the big question posed by human rights advocates after the authority, which provides civilian oversight over police work, laid bare its progress card this week.

Amid revelation that the authority’s operations are facing rigid resistance from the police, IPOA chairman Macharia Njeru painted a picture of a body that is struggling to realise capacity to execute its mandate.

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