Mombasa activists: Rein in murderous police officers

Members of civil society jointly hold candles in remembrance of victims during the International Day of the Disappeared at the Komblenz Hall, Mombasa, yesterday. [PHOTO: GIDEON MAUNDU/ STANDARD]

MOMBASA: Coast-based human rights groups are demanding that action be taken against security officers involved in extra-judicial killings and enforced disappearances.

They lamented that despite the promise of the 2010 Constitution, rights violations, extra-judicial killings and torture by State agents remain prevalent in Kenya.