Rights groups question Kanja, Amin on whereabouts of missing Mlolongo 3

The Law Society of Kenya and Police Reforms Working Group have raised doubts over the response by Inspector General Douglas Kanja and the Directorate of Criminal Investigations Mohammed Amin on not knowing the whereabouts of the missing Mlolongo abductees.

This is after the  bodies of Justus Mtumwa and Martin Mwau were discovered yesterday hours before the officers appeared in court.

Kanja and Amin had snubbed court summons on multiple occassions only to honor it the same day that the two bodies were found.

“We remain concerned by admissions under oath by Kanja and Amin on 30 January 2025, that they did not have any knowledge of where Justus Mtumwa and Martin Mwau were, despite their bodies being taken to the Nairobi Funeral Home by officers from Ruai Police Station,” the statement read in part.

The two bodies of the missing Mlolongo men were discovered on Thursday at the morgue.

The Lobby Groups have called for a postmortem to determine the cause of death and for the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) to investigate the incidents and bring perpetrators to book.

The human rights groups also want the National Police Service to establish a missing persons database for easy interaction with relatives of missing people.

They have urged the DCI to investigate the abductions of the remaining two; Steven Kavingo and Kalani Mwema as instructed by court yesterday.

So far, data from the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights has recorded over 63 cases of extrajudicial killings, 89 enforced disappearances with 19 people still missing since June 2024.