It is good that the US investigators are not welcome to Kenya - Kenyan investigators must not be looked down upon by Politicians calling for investigators from abroad.
March 12th, 2009
It is wrong for politicians to call for the help from FBI everytime a crime is committed in Kenya as if Kenya is not independent country with its own investigators. When the Prime Minister says that any results reached by Kenyan investigators will not be accepted by the public, he is simply asking the members of the public to look down upon the local investigators. What makes FBI investigators superior to Kenyan investigators? If one thinks the Kenyans are not well trained, train them and if fear is that they may be corrupted, pay them good salaries.The investigators do a good job and yet politicians get huge sums of money to make noise among other things, in parliament and attack one another on a daily basis because of their political alianations. /API
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Local investigators oppose FBI involvement
Written By:Lilian Mwendo
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| Caption: Report by UN rapporteur Prof Philip Alston claimed Kenyan police have been involved in extra judicial killings of suspects. |
Private investigators in the country are now accusing the government of sidelining them by inviting foreigners to investigate crimes that can be handled locally.
National Association of Kenya Investigators chairman Mike Munyoki said Wednesday that Kenya has enough experts with experience to handle anything to do with investigations.
The government has on several occasions requested for help from abroad in investigating high profile criminal cases in the country.
The recent killing of the Oscar Foundation CEO Kamau Kingara and his communications assistant Paul Oulu prompted the prime minister to enlist the help of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) to unravel the mysterious murders.
This did not go down well with local investigators who say they are equally qualified to handle the matter saying some of tem received their training abroad.
One of the investigators Joseph Mwanzia says he was one of the investigators in the murder of British tourist Julie Ward which was concluded in 1998.
He is now the Managing Director of a private investigations company, Hawk Eye Technologies which has been involved in investigations of several criminal cases including the city hall fire.
They have also embarked on training criminal investigators to enhance the nation's capability on local investigations.
Kingara and Oulu were killed last week by unknown assailants along Mamlaka Road in Nairobi, near State House.
Police have denied any involvement in the killings saying whoever did it wanted to implicate them to reinforce a report by UN rapporteur Prof Philip Alston who claimed Kenyan police have been involved in extra judicial killings of suspects.
source.kbc.kenya