The Independent Police Oversight Authority (IPOA) chairperson Issack Hassan has revealed why the authority is incapable of probing abductions.
Speaking to the media on Wednesday, Hassan said that the primary goal for IPOA was to oversight police conduct and since the National Police Service had denied involvement in the abductions, they would not be able to launch a probe. "We came into office in December when there were a lot of reported abductions and forced disappearances.
But the IG came about and said they are not our officers," he relayed. "IPOA is an Act of government and we investigate misconduct by police officers.
So wherein you have got people with hoods and cars with fake number plates who are abducting people, and do not take them to a police station but to a different place, I think these are issues that even the police must investigate." IPOA opened its Nakuru Regional Office on May 2, 2018.
