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Security officers face 17 abduction charges

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Dreaded Special Service Unit members at Kahawa Law Courts where they faced 17 counts of abducting, torturing and causing the forced disappearance of three people, Mohammed Zaid Sami Kidwai, Zulfiqar Ahmed Khan and their taxi driver Nicodemus Mwania Mwange on July 22, 2023, as members of the disbanded Squad. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

The Kahawa Law Courts Senior Principal Magistrate Gideon Kiage has denied 13 officers from the disbanded Special Service Unit (SSU) of the from Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), and an officer Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and National Intelligence Service (NIS) bail.

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