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Uproar over spike in cases of abductions by State agents

A police officer kicks a tear gas canister thrown back by a protestor during nationwide demonstrations against Finance Bill 2024. [AFP]

The dreaded knock in the dead of the night and the pounding of doors with heavy military boots is back. Incidents, akin to those witnessed three decades, of men in civilian clothes whisking away Kenyans critical of the government ago are back.

On Tuesday, Law Society of Kenya (LSK) President Faith Odhiambo talked of about 50 young Kenyans who had so far been abducted. Her own personal assistant, Ernest Nyerere, too was picked up yesterday at dawn from his residence.

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