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Murkomen and Amin: Architects of state terror killing without blinking

From The Standard · () English

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  • The article names Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen and DCI Director Mohamed Amin as the alleged architects of a security apparatus operating beyond constitutional constraints.
  • It links them to a wider Kenyan crisis involving enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings and a crackdown on dissent.
  • Legal experts have accused Murkomen of issuing public orders that could amount to incitement to kill.

Kenya’s latest wave of enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings and repression of dissent has placed two senior security officials at the center of a fierce accusation: Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen and Directorate of Criminal Investigations Director Mohamed Amin are described as the architects of a state security apparatus operating beyond constitutional restraints.

The article presents their names as symbols of a dark period in Kenya’s turbulent history, accusing them of wielding state power with impunity. It says the security machinery has become seemingly unbound by constitutional limits as the country confronts the latest crackdown.

Murkomen has faced accusations that his public orders are incendiary. Legal experts argue that some of those orders amount to incitement to kill.

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