This trend of threats to their lives is not new to Kenyans. The immediate former chairman of the Kenya Human Rights Commission, Maina Kiai also complained about threat to his life and no one took it seriously. The latest victim after the broaday light killing of Oscar and Paul Oulu, is Kamanda Mucheke, a programme manager for the Kenya National Commission of Human Rights (KNCHR, governmental), has just left the country to go to Switzerland after the European Union (EU) accepted to find him safe haven to protect him from the death threats he has received. Kamanda has been instrumental on the release of video showing a former police Constable Bernard Kiriinya who described how as a driver with the Special Crimes Prevention Unit he witnessed 58 executions within one year. The constable has been since killed just four months after the interview.

It is now not yet clear to know the specific nature of threats he had received. Our efforts to contact him yesterday bore no fruit.
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