Probe police killings in Kenya

In May 2009, a report by UN Rapporteur Philip Alston on police killings in the wake of the Mungiki menace in parts of Nairobi and Central, so enraged the Government that the police commissioner at the time, Hussein Ali, said: "Anyone can make an accusation, it doesn't take a brain surgeon to come up with one."

The police service has been accused of carrying out extra-judicial killings on many occasions. But they have consistently denied the claims. For even in a situation where an arrest could have been effected, trigger-happy officers have opted to kill rather than apprehend suspects.