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Makau taskforce must review how police handle protesters

Member of the panel of experts on compensation of victims of protests led by Prof Makau Mutua were sworn in at KICC on September 4,2025. [Benard Orwongo, Standard]

With the swearing in of the Makau Mutua-led taskforce on victims’ compensation, the difficult task of determining the parameters of compensation, defining the victims and fixing the quantum of compensation starts. Theirs is a hard task, not made easier by an environment of skepticism on anything with a government tag.

It must have been agonising for LSK President Faith Odhiambo and human rights defenders like Amnesty International’s Irungu Houghton to reject a populist stand and join the taskforce.

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