Police pursuing Kimeli killers

By Martin Mutua

The killers of a former senior police officer Bernard Kimeli can run but they cannot hide, Internal security Assistant Minister Orwa Ojode has warned.

Ojode told Parliament that the late Kimeli was top police officer and the Government will not rest until they arrest his killers.

"I can assure this house that those who killed Kimeli will be arrested very soon," he promised Parliament.

Ojode was answering questions from Members of Parliament soon after he issued a statement over the death of Kimeli who was murdered outside his house a fortnight ago.

The statement had been sought by Imenti Central MP Gitobu Imanyara who was not in the house when it was delivered on Tuesday.

Imanyara wanted to know whether or not the late Kimeli was a witness in the Waki Commission of Inquiry and that he was listed as a witness at the International Criminal court (ICC)

Imanyara said the late Kimeli was destined to travel last week to The Hague as a witness and wondered whether his killing was not as a result of that.

The Imenti Central MP said he hoped investigations into the killing of Kimeli was not going to be carried out by the same police adding that many Kenyans had died at the hands of the police.

"The Government must give an assurance and not intimidation," he added.

However, Ojode said they were not aware whether Kimeli was to be a witness at the ICC saying information they had he was not.

"But Mr Speaker there are ICC witnesses, so I hear, who are secret though I cannot authenticate but I can’t tell whether Kimeli was also one of them," he added.