Kenya: Surging Police Killings Put Service on the Spot

16 February 2019

The National Police Service (NPS) is once again on the spot after a Nairobi court handed the death sentence to former Ruaraka police station commander Nahashon Mutua over the murder of a suspect in 2013.

On the same day, a judicial inquiry sitting in Kisumu indicted five senior police officers for the August 2017 murder of six-month-old Samantha Pendo, in a growing trend that shines the light on extrajudicial killings carried out by law enforcement officers.

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