UK CALLING FOR THE SUSPENSION OF THE INSPECTORATE OF POLICE AND DIRECTOR OF
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS BY THE KENYA POLICE SERVICE COMMISSION
The Justice and Equity Council UK chapter would like to bring it to the attention of the Chairman and
Secretary of the Kenya Police Service Commission, its concern by the continuing forced disappearance,
abductions of fellow citizens of Kenya and lately the blatant killing of a blogger, Albert Ojwang right within
a police cell. This joins a growing list of children of Kenya known to have been forced to disappear and/or
have been abducted or killed over the last couple of months including Mr Gideon Kibet, Mr Billy Mwangi,
Mr Peter Muteti and Mr Benard Kavuli. We demand that the top leadership of the Police service be sent on
compulsory leave and/or suspended and investigated over the failings and killings
These Kenyans are human beings, and you have been delegated the authority under the 2010 constitution
to serve these Kenyans amongst the over 50 million other Kenyans by guaranteeing that officers you vet
and promote to the high office of the police service including the inspector-general and deputy inspector
general have the highest integrity, are law abiding and are devoid of any political inclinations to ensure that
they protect Kenyans from any harm, abuse, torture, degrading treatment, unjust practice and in any case
contrary to chapter 4 of the 2010 constitution covering the bill of rights.
The list of Kenyans who have similarly been forced to disappear or been abducted is growing and we are
baffled by your deafening silence and the silence of your commission which for the time being, is
responsible for the safety and wellbeing of Kenyans in their disparate composition. Further, we have not
seen any tangible action being taken by your office or the cabinet secretary for interior requiring that these
forced disappearances be brought to an end, by the Inspector General of Police, or for him to submit a
report of the status of investigations.
The IG of police has BLATANTLY LIED that Albert Ojwang committed suicide and now offers a lame excuse
after evidence has emerged to the contrary, the evidence of which has or is being tampered with in the
most gruesome manner. The IG wants Kenyans to believe that exposing the rot by a public servant is now a
criminal act that the police can waste public funds in defending instead of the aggrieved individuals filing a
civil case for libel as is the practice.
We can now state that under your watch as chairman and secretary of the Kenya Police Service
Commission, Kenya has been turned into a police state where lives of Kenyans do not matter anymore and
that the reputation of the police service now rank higher above the lives of the Kenyans. WE SAY NO NOT
AGAIN…… THIS CAN’T and WON’T BE ALLOWED TO TAKE ROOT AMONGST KENYANS.
Having lost faith in the ability of the cabinet secretary and president to uphold the 2010 constitution, we
now turn to you as the commission capable of hiring and firing police officers to intervene and do the right
thing. History will judge you once all this has passed and one wonders if your name would be worth the
paper it is written on if lives of Kenyans who pay your wages mean nothing to you.It is in view of this that the purported statement by the Inspector General of Police has to be interrogated
and his sacking and or dismissal need to be your priority in your mandate to ensure Kenyan remains a law-
abiding state with law abiding police officers. Ina properly functioning democracy, the IG, his deputy
Langat, DCI Mohamed Amin would have all resigned or been sacked and investigations would have moved
to a charge sheet of those capable.
Whereas article 1 of the 2010 Constitution grants sovereign power to the people of Kenya;
Recognising the increasing number of forced disappearances and abduction of Kenyans and the killing
