A family in from Kitutu Masaba constituency has called upon the government to speed up investigations over the death of their kin who had allegedly been taken by police officers before his badly mutilated body was found several weeks later at Kisii Level six hospital
Speaking on Wednesday at the burial ceremony, speaker after speaker condemned the incident and accused the government of dragging investigations.
They gave Keroka police an ultimatum of one month to give detailed report concerning the death of the deceased Johnson Mageto.
“I fail to understand because during the fateful day, some three people armed with machine guns and dressed in the police attire came and arrested the victim. They introduced themselves as police officers from Keroka police,” said Peter Nyamongo.
“The investigations are being carried in a very slow manner and this is questionable. We have given them a month to conclude investigations or else we take another approach as a family,” added Alex Ongige.
Area MCA Ken Atuti backed the family and wondered why the police would fail to act, weeks after the incident was reported.
“Stiff steps must be taken and someone must be held accountable. It is impossible for people to imitate the police and go unpunished,” he said.
However Keroka Deputy OCS defended police officers from the claims and asked family members of the deceased to give police time to arrest the perpetrators.
“First I want to assure you that the police have never arrested the deceased because that is not even in our records and they know that. Let them give us time to arrest those who were involved in executing the heinous act,” he said on phone.