Four police officers of disbanded Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) Special Service Unit (SSU) have today been arraigned over disappearance of two Indian nationals and a Kenyan.
Peter Muthee Gachiku, Francis Muendo Ndonye, John Mwangi Kamau and Joseph Kamau Mbugua appeared before Kahawa Law Courts magistrate Diana Mochache to face the law on a number of alleged crimes including abduction of two Asian origins together with their Kenyan taxi driver and additionally conspiracy to commit crime.
Through their lawyers Danstan Omari and Kahiga Kiguru said only DCI, DPP or National Police Service Commission can bring cases against police to court.
Magistrate Mochache will on Wednesday rule on whether Police Internal Affairs Unit can bring a case before her court.
The IAU had made an application seeking the court to allow the police to detain the four police officers suspected of having a hand in the disappearance of two Indian men and their taxi driver.
IAU wanted the four to be held for 30 days pending investigations.
At least ten other officers from the disbanded SSU have reportedly agreed to be witnesses in the case that is slowly emerging to be a major probe into claims of extra-judicial killings.
Investigations into the murder accusation has put former DCI boss George Kinoti and SSU Director Pius Gitari at centre-stage with allegations revealing that some of SSU officers followed illegal directives.
Other top bosses from the DCI are also likely to be targeted in the ongoing crackdown against officers attached to the unit whose members have been linked to extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances.
Preliminary investigations have revealed that a senior officer attached to the Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau (CRIB) tracked and monitored the movement of the two foreigners at the heart of the ongoing investigations.