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UN official calls for sacking of Ali and Wako
United Nations Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial killings Professor Philip Alston during an international media briefing at the UN headquarters in Gigiri Wednesday. He called for Kenya's Attorney General and Police Commissioner sackings over the killings. Photo/HEZRON NJOROGE
Posted Wednesday, February 25 2009 at 21:05
He criticised MPs for taking sides over the matter and warned that the International Criminal Court of Justice did not need to wait for former UN secretary general Kofi Annan to hand over the secret envelope to start investigating Kenya, which he described as having the most water-tight cases he had ever seen.
“If the ICC cannot move faster in the case of Kenya where there is a lot of documented evidence, then it cannot move anywhere else in the world,” he said.
Prof Alston also criticised the military over its intervention in the Mt Elgon violence and said people were killed and others tortured.
“It’s clear that the military denials of involvement in torture and killings cannot be supported by evidence on the ground. The Mt Elgon incident should be investigated by an independent Commission such as the Waki Commissions and it should look at the abuses between 2005 and 2008,” he said.
Prof Alston said he was surprised that in spite of seeking assurance from the Government over the security of the people he wished to interview, four individuals who gave evidence to him in Bungoma, Western Kenya, were later harassed. He gave their names as Mr Job Bwonya, Mr Eric Wanambisi, Mr Eliud Siyoi and Mr Taiga Wanyanja all from the Western Kenya Human Rights Watch.
Reports by Bernard Namunane, Lucas Barasa and Oliver Mathenge
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Submitted by gm1971Posted March 06, 2009 08:07 AM
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Submitted by Dkimanzi
Foreigner or not lets stick to the issues at hand. Are these recommendations good for Kenyans? yes! The police and AG work for us and it is high time people acted like it. I'm so sick of watching people getting railroaded all the time. We the people have the right to fire them whether in a civil way or forcefully. These people breath the same air that we do and bleed just like us. So why do we stand aside and allow them to do whatever they want?
Posted February 27, 2009 11:02 AM -
Submitted by pat2007asc
Wako is the main problem in this saga.AN AG who is toothless, a see no evil hear none, ever smiling instead of acting, best in murder cover up whenever he feels he might rub off the executive shoulders the wrong way,a government advisor who advises nothing,a puppet ofANY REGIME a refined skeemer and a professional survivor whose credentials are only in paper and translates to nothing on the ground,he follows the wind,is a coward and abbets corruption, the only action we know of him? NOLLE PROSEQUI
Posted February 27, 2009 12:48 AM -
Submitted by MwangiMukami
What Prof. Philip said was simply a recommendation, It does not in any way interfere with our sovereignty and of course there are millions of other Kenyans who have said that many times before only that they never receive the same publicity as Prof. Alston. It is time the Kenya Police Service review its intent if it is to kill or uphold law and prevent crime. The A-G should have left office years ago, but for political reasons, they have refused to investigate him.
Posted February 26, 2009 08:05 PM -
Submitted by mikihato
That is why we have a trained ostensibly professional police force. To deal within the law with gangs like Mungiki. They have simply failed in that respect; it has nothing to do with foreigners telling use what to do.
Posted February 26, 2009 06:11 PM
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I think the best people to tell us whether prof was fair or not are, parents whose chidren were beheaded by mungiki, those who suffered female genital mutilation through Mungiki, rape victims and matatu business operators who have been forced to be paying loyalties to mungiki.