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Residents celebratepost-election violence officer's retrial order

Kisumu residents have praised the Court of Appeal for ordering the retrial of an officer who shot dead a protester in Kisumu during the 2007-2008 post-election violence (PEV).

On the day Police Constable Edward Kirui - who walked away a free man after the High Court acquitted him of murdering a protester - was back in the dock to face charges relating to another victim, the residents also called on the Government to look deeper into unresolved extra judicial killings in the county.

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