Kenya opposition collecting evidence to file case at ICC over police brutality

By Our Correspondent, NAIROBI Kenya

The Kenya’s law enforcement has been on the spotlight over their handling of protesters in the series of anti-government protests.

The use of excessive lethal force by the police has resulted in deaths and injuries and now the opposition says it is seeking to have the international community involved 

“We are calling on the international community not to lose sight of what is happening in our land,” Wandayi said. 

The opposition is turning its attention and plea for help to the United Nations.

Azimio’s legal advisor Paul Mwangi says the opposition is inviting the United Nations special rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and association, Clement Nyaletosti to take a keen look at the unfolding events in Kenya in regard to the handling of the protests and the violation of the citizens’s rights to peaceful assembly.

The opposition says it is also taking matters into its own hands by collecting evidence of police action against protesters right from the Saba Saba protests to last week’s three days of protests.

Azimio says this evidence will be crucial when it files a case against the government and the police at the International Criminal Court at The Hague. 

The opposition further says it has already compiled a list of what it terms as persons of interest as it ramps up its own evidence gathering. 

Azimio will also have a meeting on Tuesday to review the proof gathered so far ahead of Wednesday’s protests. This as leader of minority in the national assembly called for a halt to what he says is rampant police brutality in Luo Nyanza.

“We are seeing a systematic onslaught on unarmed peaceful civilians by police or people who call themselves police, some are in uniform others are not, the kind of aggression and brutality we see in Luo Nyanza is something that has never been witnessed,” Wandayi added. 

The call comes a day after Law society of Kenya Nyanza chapter and Human rights group began the process documenting alleged cases of atrocities by the police.