PRESIDENT Kibaki’s regime has been the worst in human rights violations, Gichugu MP Martha Karua has said. In sentiments echoed by numerous human rights group at a workshop yesterday, Karua said President Kibaki's era has been marred with extrajudicial killings, executions and intimidation of human rights activists. “In Kibaki’s regime, human rights work has become increasingly hostile. It has witnessed a widespread and the highest number of extrajudicial killings than in the Moi’s 22 years rule,” Karua said.
She cited the execution of Oscar Foundation director Kamau King’ara and coordinator Paul Oulo in March last year as the latest landmark human rights violations.
She also pointed at the arbitral arrest, illegal extradition to Uganda and detention of human rights defender al-Amin Kimathi and other suspects of the Uganda bombings as some of the violations the Kibaki administration has meted on human rights defenders.. “If a person has committed an offense, they should be taken to court. Killing suspects, illegal extraditions and detentions can never be a substitute to the due process,” Karua said.
She urged the lobby groups to form networks and stand up against human rights violations and institute legal actions against the government. “I know speaking about a violation may make one be branded a sympathiser or a member of a certain group and this is only to mute the voices of reason,” she said.
On the recent attacks Kenya National Commission on Human Rights officials by Eldoret North MP William Ruto, Karua said these were deliberate attempts to disengage and scatter the organisation.
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