Prime Minister Raila Odinga (right) speaks to civil society organisations representatives in his office March 09, 2009. He directed Kenya police investigating last week’s killing of two human rights activists to cooperate with officers from the United States in finding those responsible. Photo/DENNIS OKEYO (Nairobi)
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Mr Odinga says there is political commitment to find out the people behind the deaths that have caused fear among human rights activists
Prime Minister Raila Odinga has directed Kenya police investigating last week’s killing of two human rights activists to cooperate with officers from the United States in finding those responsible.
The Prime Minister said on Monday that he had written to Internal Security minister George Saitoti to instruct police to work with two officers from the US’s Federal Bureau of Investigations to investigate the fatal shooting of Oscar Kamau King’ara and John Paul Oulu on Thursday evening.