Activist wants IG, DCI compelled to summon DPP Haji over River Yala murders

An activist has filed a case at the Milimani Law Courts seeking orders compelling Inspector General of Police Hillary Mutyambai and Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) George Kinoti to summon Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji over his remarks regarding the unsolved River Yala murders.

This after close to 30 bodies suspected to be of victims of extra-judicial killings were discovered in River Yala, with half of them yet to be identified.

In the petition that has been certified as urgent, Fredrick Bikeri argues that the DPP made the remarks on May 10, 2022 while addressing attendees of the annual National Conference on Criminal Justice Reforms held in Naivasha.

Bikeri argues that DPP Haji indicated that he had knowledge of investigators furnishing him and his office with limited, altered, or improperly acquired evidence in some instances.

He further argues that the said public confession by the DPP of his alleged knowledge of criminals involved and his continuous inaction and apparent protection of the perpetrators as well as those involved in the alteration of evidence and the deliberate withholding of crucial information to the detriment of the victims amounts to a crime.