{"id":17651,"date":"2025-05-05T13:07:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T13:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=17651"},"modified":"2025-05-05T13:07:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T13:07:57","slug":"only-four-junior-officers-to-face-charges-over-baby-pendo-kisumu-2017-protest-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=17651","title":{"rendered":"Only Four Junior Officers to Face Charges Over Baby Pendo, Kisumu 2017 Protest Deaths."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GKPJDcBWkAAyoBE-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GKPJDcBWkAAyoBE-980x653.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GKPJDcBWkAAyoBE-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has announced that only four junior police officers will face criminal charges in connection with the 2017 post-election protests in Kisumu, which led to the death of Baby Pendo and 39 other victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite 12 officers \u2014 including senior commanders \u2014 having been initially implicated, the DPP dropped charges against eight of them, citing insufficient evidence. The decision was formally made on Monday, May 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amnesty International Kenya, which attended the court session, confirmed that the plea-taking process for the four remaining officers is ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move has sparked renewed concerns from human rights groups and victims\u2019 families, who have long demanded full accountability for the deadly crackdown during the opposition protests following the disputed 2017 general election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has announced that only four junior police officers will face criminal charges in connection with the 2017 post-election protests in Kisumu, which led to the death of Baby Pendo and 39 other victims. Despite 12 officers \u2014 including senior commanders \u2014 having been initially implicated, the DPP dropped charges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GKPJDcBWkAAyoBE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17653,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17651\/revisions\/17653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}