Mombasa Senator Hassan Omar has accused Security chiefs Joseph Boinnet and Joseph Nkaissery over the increased killings and disappearances of people across the country, saying that the two ought to be probed.
Mr Omar said that a commission needed to be constituted to look into the present and past operations of the two as they had failed to stop “extra-judicial killings and forced disappearances”.
Speaking on Sunday in a joint press briefing at the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) offices in Mombasa, Omar said that it was the responsibility of security chiefs to provide security yet according to him the very apparatus was at the heart of suspicion over killings and disappearance of people.
“There has been an issue of command responsibilities,” he said. “It’s not a question of you pulling a trigger, it’s a question of Nkaissery and Boinnet consistently being unable to stop this action of disappearance.”
Omar was alluding to the recent killings of a terror suspect in Malindi and that of lawyer Willie Kimani who was slain and dumped in a river together with his client and their driver.
Present at the joint press meeting were Mvita Member of Parliament Abdullswamad Shariff Nassir and representatives of more than 10 human rights groups.
In the recent, people have been found killed and dumped in what is believed to be well organised plots, the other case being that of rights activist Jacob Juma who was found killed in Nairobi.
Omar threw strong suspicion on the police force, saying that anyone who had held Nkaissesry and Boinnet’s positions in the past and present must be grilled by parliament.
“The profile of those who were killed makes past and current commanders in the security machinery culpable, complicit or guilty of crimes against humanity,” he said.