Detectives arrested four more police officers linked to the disbanded Special Services Unit (SSU) squad.
On Wednesday, November 30, insiders within the Internal Affairs Unit (IAU) noted that the four were detained at Capital Hill Police Station in Nairobi, awaiting to be arraigned in court on Thursday, December 1.
Further, reports detailed that two senior officers from DCI headquarters alleged to have been directly involved with SSU activities recorded statements about the inner workings of the disbanded Unit and the disappearance of two Indians and their taxi driver.
The two, however, distanced themselves from connecting to the SSU unit in its operations.
Detectives also extended their probe to officers attached to the Kenya Wildlife Services to dig deeper into the alleged involvement of an officer attached to the Nyeri Abadares forest.
The move to investigate KWS created tension within the wildlife service and other units linked to the alleged dirty deeds that left scores dead under mysterious conditions.
Eight others who were arrested before were slated to undergo DNA tests to facilitate further investigations into their involvement in the series of extra-judicial killings reported in the past.
However, the DNA tests did not go as planned due to a lack of the requisite facilities at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) laboratories.
Attempts by the detectives to use a government laboratory proved futile as the suspects rejected the option.
The suspects were instructed by the defence lawyers to reject any attempt to use government chemists.
“Court had previously ordered a DNA test to be conducted at DCI labs which unfortunately has no facilities for the exercise,” an insider stated.
Following the arrest of the four, the number of officers looped to the mysterious murders rose to 12. SSU was disbanded after an order made by President William Ruto shortly after assuming power.
Ruto was on record vowing to bring the extra-judicial killings to an end in his tenure as the President.
Source: kENYANS.CO.KE
