Ruto Reveals "Yala River Dumping" Mystery....

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[SIZE=7]Ruto: Why I Disbanded DCI Special Service Unit[/SIZE]
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President William Ruto has explained why he disbanded the Special Service Unit of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).

Speaking at a thanksgiving service in Kericho County on Sunday, October 16, Ruto explained that the unit had been turned into a militia used to execute Kenyans.

He stated that the squad was responsible for the unexplained death of citizens whose bodies were recovered from the infamous River Yala.

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President William Ruto attending a thanksgiving service in Kericho County on Sunday, October 16, 2022.

"They had five years which they used to run down the country in which insecurity had hit unimaginable levels with bodies were found killed in river Yala. The police had deviated from the role of protecting Kenyans to killing them.

“That is why I gave an order that the SSU of the police be disbanded because it was killing Kenyans anyhow,” the president stated.

Ruto’s explanation came hours after the DCI announced that the unit had been scrapped following a directive from the Acting Inspector General of Police (IG) Noor Gabow
“The DCI Special Service Unit (SSU) has been disbanded with immediate effect. All officers serving in the disbanded unit have been recalled to DCI Headquarters for further instructions,” the statement read in part.
The investigative agency noted that the move was part of changes in the National Police Service (NPS) under President Ruto’s administration.
The unit was created in the year 1999 to replace Special Crime Prevention Unit.
“It was created due to the increase in unusual and peculiar crimes within the Republic of Kenya. It discharges its duties under the immediate supervision of the Director Operations DCI Headquarters and on several occasions assist in areas where Crime is perceived to be on the rise within the Country,” reads its description on DCI Website.
On October 15, Ruto appointed Amin Mohammed as the new DCI Director to replace George Kinoti who submitted a resignation letter to the head of state.

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Photo of former Nairobi Police Commander Japhet Koome.

While naming his nominees to the cabinet, Ruto also announced that the former police boss Hillary Mutyambai had requested to be allowed to proceed on terminal leave.
Consequently, Gabow took over in an acting capacity. On September 27, outgoing Government Spokesperson Kanze Dena announced that the president had nominated Japhet Koome to replace Mutyambai.
“His Excellency President William Ruto has nominated Eng Japhet Koome Nchebere to the position of IG of Police (IGP). Koome, a former Nairobi County Police Commander, is the current Commandant of the National Police Service College, Kiganjo,” Kanze stated.

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But of another unit formed by WSR that will be slaughtering Kenyans?

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Is this guy alright?

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Let’s see heads rolling otherwise hii ni propaganda. Let those who are responsible for killing Kenyans face justice in the same courts that validated his election.

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There is a lot of Hot Air floating around.

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Mwalimu has reality kicked in? Ulikua na mdomo kubwa sana. It’s good seeing you whine

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This is good news. Under His Excellency the President Dr Wllliam S. Ruto arap Samoei [SIZE=2](NDP, ODM, UDA EGH, MDH, OBE, CBS, HSC, VSW, PhD. (Hons)) [/SIZE]there will no longer be mysterious executions in Kenya. This will be a sharp deviation from the reign of the previous administration, when people such as Msando, Jacob Juma and lawyer Gicheru disappeared under very mysterious circumstances.
Long live our Precedent. As you promised during your campaigns, “freedom has come”

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nani aliuliwa na polisi na akatupwa river Yala ?? can he tell us… how can a president say such things bila evidence ??
i know there are extra-judicial killings, but incriminating a police unit without putting anyone on trial is just shit…he sounds like the opposition leader

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They are still in a campaign mood…fighting a government he was actually Deputy President in…
It would be nice if he told us then who was dumping bodies in River Yala.

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So they know the River Yala victim killers,arrest all those who were in that unit and make them answerable

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its a known thing that those bodies are dumped and float downstream regularly.

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its not one person. Wako wengi

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sasa alashababu tutakuwa tukiwaweka wapi?
hii inakaa cia wameingia mix wanafanya social experiment

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The unit existed out of need. Cour process won’t help under special circumstances. WSR should reconstitute Kwe Kwe squad.

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[SIZE=7]Members of disbanded DCI unit revealed[/SIZE]
Friday, October 21, 2022

A total of 21 detectives who served under a recently disbanded unit of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have been summoned to the Internal Affairs Unit (IAU) headquarters in Nairobi.

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The officers who had been attached to the Special Services Unit (SSU), whose ranks range from corporal to Inspector of Police, have been asked to report unarmed to the IAU headquarters at Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) Towers in Upper Hill, Nairobi County today Friday, October 21, 2022.
“On arrival, they will report at the reception desk…where they will be guided accordingly. They will also be interviewed and record further statements. Also, inform them that no firearms are allowed within KCB Towers premises,” a police signal seen by Nation reads.

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Read: Why President Ruto disbanded DCI’s Special Service Unit

The IAU handles complaints filed against police officers and recommends punishment for those who are found to have committed professional transgressions.

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Zulfiqar Ahmad Khan who has been missing, DCI headquarters and President William Ruto.

The Nation has concealed the name of the officers for legal reasons.

This comes amid complaints by some of the officers that they were being subjected to unnecessary questioning by IAU officers over their alleged involvement in extra-judicial killings that have been witnessed across the country since the formation of the elite squad in 2019.

Read: How elite ‘killer’ squad drew Ruto’s anger and earned a date with DCI investigators

Some complained that though they operated on orders from their superiors, the commander of the unit, whom they did not name, was yet to be grilled by the IAU.
“We were not working of our own volition. The squad had a leader who was aware of every operation that we carried out day in, day out and it would be important to question that leader as well. We are being tried on things that we don’t understand, yet we are known to work on orders that are issued to us,” said a member of the squad who spoke in confidence due to the sensitivity of the matter.

Another officer, who was among the best-trained members of the elite unit, said the public was always notified on what the unit was involved in.
The officer also wondered why they were being grilled and not their leaders.
“For two days we have been questioned on things that we really don’t understand. All we are hearing are matters relating to extra-judicial killings. On such sensitive issues it would be better for the questioning to start from the top downwards,” said the other officer.
The SSU, which handled organized crime and robberies, is associated with former DCI boss George Kinoti.

Read: A furious president, two missing Indians and elite squad under house arrest

The Nation learned that despite the many hours of questioning, very little had been gathered in connection with the disappearance of two Indians identified as Mr Zulfiqar Ahmad Khan and Mr Mohamed Zaid Sami Kidwai, as well as their Kenyan driver, Mr Nicodemus Mwania Mwange.
By Thursday afternoon, a total of 12 officers had been questioned.
In what appears to be a classic case of the hunter becoming the hunted, last weekend all the officers attached to the disbanded unit were recalled, suspended and put on 24-hour surveillance.
They were further given specific dates when they should be reporting to the IAU headquarters as investigations into the disappearance of the two foreigners and their driver, which has drawn the attention of President William Ruto, continues.
Since Monday, the officers have been at pains to explain their whereabouts on the date when the two foreigners and their driver were abducted along Mombasa Road and the grey Toyota Fielder they had been driving in abandoned on the highway with all the doors wide open.

According to police sources, the men who abducted the three wore face masks and were armed.
The matter was being investigated by DCI officers attached to Lang’ata Police Station until questions were raised on the ability of police officers to objectively investigate their colleagues.
A Nairobi court ordered that the case file be handed over to the IAU, which was at the time headed by the newly appointed DCI boss Amin Mohamed Ibrahim.
Yesterday, the Police Reforms Working Group- Kenya (PRWG-K) issued a statement saying its attention had been drawn to a public admission by President William Ruto of the government’s culpability and complicity in extra-judicial executions and enforced disappearances.
Speaking in Kericho on Sunday, just hours after the disbandment of the elite group, President Dr Ruto said he had issued the orders that the unit be disbanded as it had turned into a killer squad.
The PRWG-K group brings together several human rights agencies. They include Amnesty International Kenya, Defenders Coalition, Katiba Institute, Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC), The Kenyan Section of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ Kenya), International Justice Mission (IJM-K), Haki Africa and Kariobangi Paralegal Network.

Read: Indian family seeks PM Modi’s intervention as media boss goes missing in Kenya

Others are; Women Empowerment Link, Social Welfare Development Program (SOWED), Independent Medical Legal Unit (IMLU), Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA- Kenya), International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ- Kenya), Social Justice Centers Working Group (SJCW), Usalama Reforms Forum and Transparency International Kenya.

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Mr Zulfiqar Ahmad Khan, on July 21, 2022, was in the Maasai Mara, in Narok County and was all smiles as he shared images of a lion inviting friends to join him for breakfast.

The group said a total of 107 people had been killed by the police and ten others had disappeared without a trace.
“We highly welcome the presidential admission and the promise to rid our police service of the culture of impunity, criminality, arbitrary and illegal use of force and firearms. The President’s decision is a strong first step in expressing the political will that has been lacking for decades,” the statement read.
“In addition, we are aware that executions, disappearances, torture and cruel treatment are not only committed by the infamous SSU. It is important for the President to extend this action across all security and policing agencies including the Kenya Forest Service, Kenya Wildlife Service and the Kenya Defence Forces and the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit,” it further read.
The PRWG-K said the disbandment of the discredited unit was not enough, adding that thorough investigations should be carried out on members of the unit and those found culpable prosecuted for individual and command roles in extortion, abductions, kidnappings, torture, extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances and other serious crimes.
They also asked President Ruto to make public a report submitted by the IAU that led to the disbandment of the SSU.
Since 2007, the Missing Voices Coalition has documented 1,264 cases of executions and 237 cases of enforced disappearance, to which the police were linked.
The cases, the Nation can now reveal, including one in December 2020, when three police officers attached to the SSU were arrested over a robbery and violence incident at a gas depot in Machakos County.

The suspects are said to have also extorted Sh1 million from a businessman in Machakos town.
The officers reportedly received Sh600,000 from the management of the gas depot after threatening to arrest the workers.
Senior general-duty police officers in Nairobi then went ahead and arrested the three, who were at the SSU headquarters in Upper Hill, Nairobi County.
They were locked up at the Nairobi Capitol Hill Police Station.
And on December 7, 2022, officers from the squad allegedly shot dead six suspects of robbery with violence on the Nyahururu- Nairobi Highway.
In a statement by the DCI, the detectives had information that the suspects were planning to carry out a robbery, whereupon the officers decided to confront and disrupt them from committing the crime.
The statement further indicated the suspects had been challenged to stop, but they opened fire at the officers.
In December 2021, members of the elite squad shot dead two armed suspects as they reportedly attempted to commit a robbery at a supermarket in Ruaka, Kiambu County.
“The thugs, who were armed with a Ceska pistol loaded with five rounds of 9mm caliber, opened fire at our detectives,” a statement by the DCI on the matter read in part.

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Meanwhile…

Last-minute changes at the National Police Service have seen the newly appointed head of the Internal Affairs Unit (IAU), Mr John Gachomo, recalled to the police headquarters at Jogoo House.

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Mr John Gachomo

Mr Gachomo, who was to take over from Mohamed Amin as the director of the IAU, was recalled on Friday morning for redeployment.

The unit’s deputy, Esther Ngang’a, who is also a lawyer and commissioner of police, will take over as director in an acting capacity, acting Inspector-General of Police Noor Gabow said, as the search for a substantive director gets underway.

The change followed complaints from civil society groups and development partners who questioned Mr Gachomo’s suitability to head the IAU considering that he once headed the Anti-Terror Police Unit (ATPU).

The ATPU was accused by Missing Voices Kenya, which tracks down cases of extrajudicial killings, of being behind a series of enforced disappearances.

Gachomo was accused of having close ties with George Kinoti.

Kinoti resigned as DCI boss paving the way for Amin to lead the directorate.

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[SIZE=7]3 DCI Cops & Head of Disbanded Special Unit Arrested[/SIZE]
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UPDATE: Saturday, October 22: Head of the defunct Special Service Unit, Peter Muthee, was among four cops arrested by the police on Saturday, October 22, over alleged involvement in illegal abductions.

Additionally, detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) also impounded two vehicles said to have been used by their colleagues in the said abductions.

The four cops attached to the DCI, too, were arrested a day after they were grilled by the Internal Affairs Unit (IAU).

Preliminary reports indicated that the suspects were charged with kidnappings, abuse of office, and conspiracy to commit a felony.

They were detained at an undisclosed location prior to their arraignment on Monday, October 24.

President William Ruto disbanded SSU after they were accused of extra-judicial killings and enforced disappearances.

Reports indicated that the four cops were part of a team of 10 officers who were summoned by IAU on Friday, October 21, for questioning over their involvement in the disappearance of two Indians.

The two foreigners, Zaid Sami Kidwai, and Zulfiqar Ahmad Khan were reportedly abducted days before the August 9 polls.

Digital strategist Dennis Itumbi claimed that the duo was helping Ruto’s campaign team with drafting various communication strategies.

Also abducted alongside the two Indians was their driver Nicodemus Mwania.

The arrest of the cops also came hours after the acting Inspector General of Police, Noor Gabow, directed the DCI to expedite investigations in cases of missing persons.

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Noor Gabow- Acting Inspector General of Police

He also ordered officers involved in the alleged abductions to be held accountable for their actions.

“Our singular and foremost noble purpose is to protect lives and not take them away unless under extreme circumstances and in strict accordance with the rule of law.

"Officers should be governed by the laws of Kenya and the SSO and should be reminded of their role as servants of the people and not otherwise,” the IG stated.

According to Missing Voices Kenya, a group of human rights organizations, 101 people were either killed by the police or disappeared between January and October 2022.