{"id":9412,"date":"2022-10-18T08:44:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T08:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=9412"},"modified":"2022-10-18T08:44:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T08:44:48","slug":"president-ruto-in-trouble-for-disbanding-the-dci-special-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=9412","title":{"rendered":"PRESIDENT RUTO IN TROUBLE FOR DISBANDING THE DCI SPECIAL UNIT."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President of Kenya William Ruto is facing a lot of questions after he went ahead to disband the Special Branch unit at the DCI, this branch was disbanded immediately by the new DCI boss Amin Mohammed in regards to cries and claims from kenyas and leaders that the said branch was involved in the kidnappings and extra judicial killings in the country. Human rights group in the country as questioned why the president disbanded the group without revealing the next step to be taken i regard to the over 600cases 8that were being investigated by the same DCI special branch unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through a statement dated Monday, October 17, Missing Voices, a group of organisations documenting cases of forced disappearances, asked Ruto to form a commission of inquiry into the unit that was attached to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI). &#8220;Those officers implicated or who were part of that unit must be investigated. The killings they committed must be brought before a court of law,&#8221; Hussein Khalid, Executive Director of Haki Africa Said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;These are grave allegations involving lives, and we think that we need a commission of inquiry to understand what has been going on,&#8221; Demas Kiprono, Campaign Manager Amnesty International, stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Sunday, October 16, Ruto&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kenyans.co.ke\/news\/80624-ruto-why-i-disbanded-dcis-special-service-unit\">defended the disbandment of the special police unit<\/a>, arguing that his administration was overhauling the security system in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I am the one who ordered that the Special Service Unit, which was conducting extrajudicial killings, be disbanded. We have a plan on how to secure this country so that we avoid the shame of Kenyans killed [by the police and their bodies dumped] in Yala River and other,  President Ruto said in Kericho.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President of Kenya William Ruto is facing a lot of questions after he went ahead to disband the Special Branch unit at the DCI, this branch was disbanded immediately by the new DCI boss Amin Mohammed in regards to cries and claims from kenyas and leaders that the said branch was involved in the kidnappings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9413,"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":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/download-51.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9412","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9414,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9412\/revisions\/9414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}