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Ruto must do more to stop extra-judicial killings

President William Ruto with IG Japheth Koome at State House, November 2022. [PSCU]

Five weeks ago, President William Ruto announced the disbandment of the Special Service Unit (SSU) of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) on grounds that they had become a militia used to execute Kenyans.

Soon, four senior officers in the SSU unit were arraigned in court for murder in late July of two Indian citizens brought in to support Kenya Kwanza technical team in the August elections.

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