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Top State officials should condemn police killings

Kenya’s quest for police accountability has been a long journey that has occasioned several policy changes. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

Civil society organisations say 219 cases of police killings and enforced disappearances were recorded last year. Out of these, 187 cases were police killings and 32 enforced disappearances, according to a report by Missing Voices, a group of 15 civil society organisations.

This report is shocking but not at all surprising. This is because extra-judicial killings and enforced disappearances have become too common.

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