Kenya kidnapping lights the fear of returning to the dark past

In the last six months, the disappearance of more than 80 critics of the government has caused a great public reaction in Kenya.

A judge warns that the higher safety positions will be imprisoned on Monday, accused of contempt from the court if they are not presented for a series of alleged kidnaps lately.

The issue is related to the disappearances documented by the Kenyan National Human Rights Commission, since the proposed tax rise proposed in June last year began to protests throughout the nation.

At least 24 are still gone.

Police and the government denies the seizure and illegal detention of the protesters, but the country has the history of hostage sponsored by the state, and some Kenyar are being returned to that dark past.

Douglas Kanja The principal inspector of police and Mohamed Amina’s leading research directors, the directors of the Criminal Research in December, ordered the seven agents of the disappeared social networks in December.

Five suddenly reappeared in several parts of the country in early January.

The lawyers of the Lord Kanja asked the judge to record their statements and present a report.

Billy is one of Mwangi five. 24-year-old kidnappers left his hometown of his hometown (46 miles) in Embu in Embu, Central Kenya in a seemingly apparent action.

Billy’s father, Gerald Mwangi Karicha, told BBC told his son was traumatized.

“The boy didn’t share a lot,” he said. “What I can say is that when he came not his usual. He seemed surprised.”

Billy, the social criticism of the government in social media was a university student, It disappeared on December 21, 2024 that he was in an EMBU Bizarch.

According to witnesses, the hooded men arrived in a Toyota Fielder and a double cabin pick-up, gathered in one of the vehicles and took on speed.

In a few hours, the worst fears of his family began to spread.

“For most of the weekends, we are looking at football together. Its club is Chelsea; mine is Arsenal,” Gerald said.

Billy called him to talk about a football game in his disappearance, and found the phone off his son.

Later, the owner of the Bizarthics reported the kidnapping, and caused a furious search.

Billy’s mother fell on hearing the news and the following weeks were ridiculous for the family.

As soon as they find it, Billy was taken to the hospital to do the usual examination. His family says he is still healing from trauma, but the release has led some kindness.

Like many of those who have appeared again after kidnapped, Billy said little about his Calvary, perhaps for fear.

Jamil and Aslam Longton also fell silent after 32 days of captivity.

They warned the brothers, says Jamil, who would die if they went to the media.

Three months later, a government official asked his case as a legal arrest.

Siblings were considered as a statement that a government agency was responsible for what has been lived and found the courage to talk.

“The Kenyan Constitution is very clear,” says Jamilek. “You should be arrested within 24 hours and take you to the court. Ours was 32 days. They never attested to replace them anywhere.

“We were not allowed to see our family or communicate with our family. So this is a detention, this is a kidnapping.”

The brothers said Aslam to organize the protest against tax rise in the town of Kitenela near Nairobi capitals, and the security agents warned of stopping its activism.

One day in August, they were taken to a car with a car, dressed with hood and handfulers, and they were taken to an unknown place where they had in small dark cells.

Aslam says he was beaten regularly, he demanded knowing his torment financed protests.

“I was very scared,” he says. “When the door opened this man came with a fiber cable and a metal rod.

“I was afraid he came to beat or finish me; there were only two options to beat me or kill me.”

Jamil describes that his kidnappers are very armed, that they are able to continue mobile and have enough confidence in light days, working with a level of resources and flexibility that human rights groups reported in many cases.

But this does not mean that they are official security agents, says Isaac Mwau’s Government spokesman, denying the state behind the kidnappings.

“Organized security can also be part of organized crime,” BBC said.

“It could also be for political reasons … Our political detractions have made a self-evident. In fact they simply solve political scores.”

Mr. Mawaura refused to comment The case of Justin Muturi Government MinisterOne of the most lifter indictments in Kenya security agencies.

Muturi says he received his son National Intelligence Services (NIS) and released only after the President William Ruto made a live appeal.

“It’s a matter of investigation, that’s because of the story,” Mrawaura said. “But what is a story against the National Intelligence Service?

“I’d like to be categorically, president of the Republic of Kenya, who is the head of the Government, is not punished by any kidnapping, because he believes in the state of law.”

In fact, Ruto publicly promised that he will stop the kidnapping, forced to respond to the public angry and worry of western allies.

It is greatly distressed because the apparent disappearance of government activists is revived so that it is revived, recalling the authoritative methods of Daniel Arap Moi in the 1980s and 1990s.

Gitobu IManyara, in the early 1990s, a campaign for multi-party policy, was arrested and beaten by the Moi Activist Community. No doubt is now watching “Moi playbook” running.

But he says, the times have changed. Constitutional corrections have established more mechanisms to give accounts and “There is a greater part of Kenya society.”

“The Democratic Field has spread so much that the government cannot remove disensity democratic voices,” BBC said.

Also, with social networks, “almost immediately spreads the word,” he said.

“We can’t censored us to be censored in those times as we could only use fixed phones.”

Disappearance reports have decreased in recent weeks.

But despite the police investigations, they did not charge anyone, even less convicted, making them.

Several teams have requested the Prosecutor’s General Prosecutor by asking for the sending Key to the International Criminal Court (ICC).

With regard to the families of the disappearances, the nightmare continues.

“We are so depressed, so depressed,” says Stacey Mutual, Steve Mbisi’s sisters, one of the seven days disappeared in December.

“We hope they will be released. Bait (most) were free, but it is still gone. We are praying to find it.”