Kenya: CS Kindiki to Appear Before Senate Committee Over Shakahola Deaths

11 July 2023
Capital FM (Nairobi)

Nairobi — Interior and National Administration Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kndiki is expected appear before the Senate Adhoc Committee investigating the Shakahola deaths.

The committee had invited the security and administration officers who served in Kilifi County at the time the killings are believed to have happened to shed light on what they know about the incident.

The CS will appear on behalf of the officers and explain his decision to transfer them.

All the top security leadership in the area were transferred to other parts of the country in April and a new leadership deployed in the place in a bid to heighten security and facilitate proper investigations.

Kindiki at the time said, intelligence reports had established that some of the current security personnel may have received reports earlier regarding the cult and ignored them, thus they cannot be entrusted to conduct the investigations again.

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