A section of the civil society has come out to defend the anti-terrorism police units over cases of extra-judicial killings and forced disappearances in North Eastern Kenya.
Trashing the recent Human Rights Watch report, the civil society issued that the findings painted a bad picture of state security agencies.
The HRW report had alluded of a tense relationship between security agencies and local communities over extra judicial killings which have greatly compromised disclosures of intelligence information.
"Extremists and radicals are just a small minority group and a greater majority of Muslims are on the front line to help our local police in weeding out terrorists," issued Betty Waitherero, a civil society official.
Contrary to the reports that painted North Eastern counties as the most affected region, Waitherero said their independent investigations have revealed the mentioned regions as the most robust and security friendly communities.
She further revealed that although a section of the police force is marred with unprofessionalism, it is just a fraction of the officers that are involved in the malpractices.
"There are rogue police officers in the force but this is just a very small group. Why would the HRW want to overly destroy our security systems that have kept Kenyan citizens safe for long? Whose interests are this body advancing?" she posed.
George Wachira, an official from the Terror Victim Support Initiative described the report as a threat to the police work as it has instilled fear in police branding them as killers even when the security situation warranted the action taken.