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Rights Groups Sound Alarm on Kenya Police Killings

Rael Ombuor

   NAIROBI - Police in Kenya have often been accused of using excessive
   and unlawful force while in the line of duty. A new report published
   Wednesday by Human Rights Watch finds that police were involved in the
   killings of at least 21 people since August 2018, in just two of
   Kenya's informal settlements.

   On the evening of April 28, 2017, Isaac Kamau Mwangi left his mother's
   house in Nairobi's Kayole Estate to pick up his car at a car wash.

   His sister Ruth Mumbi says those were his final hours.

   "He was on his knees pleading with people who wanted to kill him,"
   Mumbi said, recounting what a witness had told the family. "The only
   thing that the boda boda driver heard was the shot and my brother
   screaming loud, calling out my name. I came to know the following day
   that he was killed by officers."

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