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In a seismic move, the Law Society of Kenya has flipped the courtroom script. No longer content with filing petitions or issuing mild press statements, they’re now calling out the very foundation of Kenya’s security apparatus. In a fiery appearance at their Nairobi headquarters, LSK president Faith Odhiambo declared a full-blown legal crusade against the creeping rot of extrajudicial killings—state-sponsored, but largely unpunished.
Odhiambo didn’t mince words. Backed by a chorus of advocates, she demanded accountability for what she described as systematic executions carried out under the guise of crowd control. Her words were both a demand for justice and an indictment of state inertia.
Central to the LSK’s argument is Article 26 of the Constitution—Kenya’s unequivocal guarantee of the right to life. But Odhiambo challenged the country to confront a hard truth: when police bullets silence peaceful protesters, and when legal recourse dies in bureaucracy, what remains of that right?
“The law cannot coexist with fear,” she warned. “When security officers become executioners, the constitution becomes a dead document.” In a country where young lives were snuffed out during last year’s Gen Z protests, this isn’t a metaphor. It’s a grim reality.
Odhiambo’s list of demands isn’t simply symbolic—it’s surgical:
Swift Investigations: IPOA must act on all outstanding cases involving police-led mass killings.
Criminal Sanctions: The ODPP must authorize charges against all officers implicated—no internal cover-ups, no silent transfers.
National Security Council Involvement: The highest echelon of Kenya’s defense and intelligence must commit to legal remedies, not bureaucratic pacifiers.
Transparency and Protection: All investigation reports must be made public, and victims or their families must be protected under the law.
These are not gentle nudges. They are demands aimed at breaking the wall of silence that has shielded rogue officers for years.
If the Gen Z protests laid bare the state’s iron fist, the recent Narok tragedy revealed just how deep the problem runs. In a land dispute turned massacre, five locals died at the hands of police—another notch in the state’s belt of unchecked violence. Despite the outcry, the government's initial move was to transfer a few senior officers. But as Odhiambo made clear, "Reassigning a killer is not the same as prosecuting one."
To the LSK, Narok isn’t just a tragedy; it’s a symptom of the same disease—a security apparatus that values silence over scrutiny, and force over fairness.
This isn’t just about punishing a few rogue officers. What the LSK is demanding is nothing short of a systemic reset. A shift in how the state views force, accountability, and the people it is supposed to serve. By putting every institution—from the ODPP to the National Security Council—on notice, the Law Society is betting that the law can still overpower the gun.
And they’re daring the system to prove them wrong.
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