Ksm Human Rights Defenders tells police to stop intimidating them
May 9, 2026
Ksm Human Rights Defenders tells police to stop
intimidating them
A section of
Kisumu Human Rights Defenders have fired a warning shot telling the police to
stop intimidating them through what they have termed as unlawful arrests.
The
Activists led by Boniface Ogutu Akach, Ricky Mugah among others claim that
there has been a trend where the police is being misused by some senior
Government officials to unlawfully arrest those who have dissenting voices and
spreading the narrative of one term that does not supports President William Ruto’s
re-election bid in the next year’s General Election.
Addressing
the press in Kisumu today to register their displeasure with the police, the
Kisumu Human Rights Defenders have taken issues with the Police particularly
from the `Directorate of Criminal Investigations {DCI} whom they have accused
of being misused by some senior Government officials.
Boniface
Ogutu Akach, renowned Human Rights Defender in Kisumu and his fellows have criticized
and condemned the manner in which one of them identified as Omar was unlawfully
arrested in Kisumu on Monday last week ending up being taken to court charged
with trump-up charges of murder of a state security agent.
Akach claim
that the named Human Rights Defender was later charged with being in a
possession of bang and ammunitions, adding that these were further trump up
charges.
Omar who
addressed the press too in Kisumu claim that a team of Police Officers from the
DCI accosted and arrested him when he alighted from a Public service vehicle at
Mamboleo area.
He claims
he was taken to UasIN Gishu County while blind folded using his white jacket,
claiming further that he was taken to various police stations in Eldoret City
before being driven back to Kisumu after police officers from those stations he
was taken in Eldoret allegedly failed to book him in.
Omar
further claims that he was taken to Kisumu Central Police station before he was
later released.
Akach on
his part added that these are pure tactics of intimidating to help in trying to
silence dissenting voices that are anti-two term for President Ruto.
Akach has
told the police to consider doing their work without intimidating members of
the public with dissenting voices.
“It is sad
that the police has profiled and branded one of our fellow human rights
defenders as a murderer and have even gone further to charge him in a court of
law with trump-up charges,” Akach says.
The Human
rights defenders have vowed to continue to speak on behalf of members of the
Public on matters of violating their constitutionally given rights under the
Bill of Rights.
“We want
the police who are doing this to be arrested and be accountable for their
actions,” they further say.
The activists
have given a seven day ultimatum to the Government to ensure all the
perpetrators of human right violations are arrested.
They have
also urged the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to drop what he
has termed as malicious charges against a Mr Omar and one Oliverti who have
since been taken to court on alleged framed up charges.
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