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Police pliers cost taxpayers Sh1m for 'pinching wrong person'

Justice Emily Ominde. [File, Standard] 

A Directorate of Criminal Investigation officer’s decision to use pliers to force a village elder repay Sh250,000 to an alleged complainant has cost Kenyans at least a million after the High Court found this a violation of the Constitution.

In a case where officers arrested and tortured the wrong person, Justice Emily Ominde observed that the government, knowing the officers were on the wrong, had tried to convince Emily Jepkemboi and her daughter, Peris Jelimo, to settle the case out of court.

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