The family of a police officer who was killed 10 years ago has moved to court to have his killers prosecuted.
The family of a police officer who was killed 10 years ago has moved to court to have his killers prosecuted.
Mr Erastus Chemorei was also tortured when he was killed, allegedly by policemen, at his home on February 19, 2005.
Mr Chemorei was a police superintendent and was said to be keeping a key to a store where Sh6.4 billion cocaine seized by police in a private villa in Malindi was kept.
Mr Chemoreis widow, Judith, her two children and a neighbour tell of the heinous and degrading treatment Mr Chemorei received before he was killed.
Uncommon brutality
The killing of Mr Chemorei was executed in a most callous manner and the police officers who carried out the killing did so with uncommon brutality not befitting a person charged to protect citizens, said lawyer Juma Kiplenge in an affidavit.
Ms Chemorei filed the suit with her children Elijah Chemorei, Sarah Chemorei and a neighbour, Mr Abubakar Ndiema, with the support of Kenya National Commission on Human Rights.
She said her husband was on leave with his family at their Kitale home.
At about 10am, he was negotiating with our neighbour (Mr Ndiema) to purchase his bull. Suddenly, about 50 police officers stormed our home, allegedly to recover firearms in my husbands possession, she said.
DRUG CARTELS
She said they ordered her husband and Mr Ndiema to sit on the ground and then sprayed him with bullets, killing him on the spot.
Allegations that he kept firearms was a lie and meant to hoodwink the public and offer police officers a chance to eliminate him because he was in the forefront fighting and exposing drug cartels in the country, she swore.
Mr Ndiema stated in his affidavit that after the shooting, he was ordered to carry the body to a Land Rover and told to lie on top of it.
While in the vehicle, the officers ordered me at gunpoint to eat the deceased brain in the full view of his children, said Mr Ndiema.
Post-mortem exam results on the body concluded that he died due to multiple bullet injuries to the head.
After the killing, Mrs Chemorei and Mr Ndiema said they were arrested and charged with robbery with violence but in October 2006, the Director of Public Prosecutions withdrew the case.
An inquest at an Eldoret magistrates court in 2011 concluded that Mr Chemorei was executed by police officers in broad daylight without any reasonable excuse, said the petitioners.
The human rights watchdog says none of the police officers who brutally killed their colleague has been prosecuted.
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