Interior CS Kithure Kindiki has denied claims that several participants and leaders of the anti-Finance bill and anti-government protests were abducted.
According to him, the constitution does not allow that and those who were forced taken were only arrested.
Some of the forceful arrests were captured on CCTV, while others occurred in the wee hour of the night.
“We do not condone abductions neither does the Constitution allow either abductions or enforced disappearances or even torture. We have a very vibrant constitution and the government has no capacity to roll back constitution guarantees.
“From where we sit, the people who have been put in custody, have been put in custody through arrests. There have been no abductions,” Kindiki said in an interview at Citizen TV on Thursday night.
Kindiki noted that that what needs to be addressed is transparency in how police officers make a decisions on arrests and how the arrests should be executed.
He added that his ministry is working on a policy on the matter.
At the same time, the CS said that he is not aware who those who shot at protestors during the parliament invasion on June 25 were.
“People who were shooting and were not the same officers attempting to contain demonstrations. Cases of shooting are scientific in nature in the sense that for you to assign shooting to a particular gun and therefore trace the holder of that gun is a process.
“They are being investigated, files have been opened on every incident if shooting,” he said.
Prof Kithure Kindiki on the people who were shooting and were not the same officers attempting to contain demonstrations: Cases of shooting are scientific in nature in the sense that for you to assign a shooting to a particular gun and therefore trace the holder of that gun is a… pic.twitter.com/A0UwFB5DXE
— Citizen TV Kenya (@citizentvkenya) July 4, 2024
