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The old wounds DCI is opening are still painful

Lempaa Suyianka The announcement by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) that the State would reopen the 2008 post-election crime files came as a surprise to many people. The question that must have dominated their minds is "why now?’’ Why 12 years later? Notably, over 1,300 people were killed in several parts of the country and an estimated 600,000 others displaced in the violence, the culmination of an acrimonious electioneering process that pitted President Mwa

Of Smoke and Mirrors: Kenya's DCI Announcement re 2007/2008 Post-Election Violence Cases

Nabil M. Orina On 23 November 2020, Kenya's Director of Criminal Investigations, Mr. Kinoti, called a press conference to announce that his office was looking into alleged instances of witness threats and intimidation in regard to the 2007/2008 Post-Election violence. This announcement and its timing has elicited mixed reactions from the political class. The main concern that has been expressed in regard to this announcement is that the 'reopening' of the PEV cases is a polit

What to expect after Gicheru's surrender to The Hague Court.

This article was first published in The Standard. The unexpected surrender of lawyer Paul Gicheru to the Netherlands and subsequently to the custody of the International Criminal Court (ICC) early this week has raised several queries that are worth examining. Questions abound as to Gicheru’s motivation to surrender to the ICC more than five-and-a-half years since the issuance of his warrant of arrest for six counts of allegedly corruptly influencing prosecution witnesses thro