Suba South MP Caroli Omondi during the Linda Mwananchi report launch The team that is led by Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna wondered which formula was used to determine the figure as sufficient, and how each victim will be paid, yet the Victims Compensation Fund has not been activated.
Suba South MP Caroli Omondi said the kitty is questionable, wondering how a life lost will be quantified, or those injured will be valued.
"Who knows how they arrived at Sh2 billion for the compensation of protest victims? Who knows the total number of the victims? What's about justice & accountability for the rogue police officers who killed or killed innocent protesters?" Omondi posed.
The caucus said the Presidential Proclamation on the Framework for Compensation of Victims of Protests and Riots to establish a framework for compensating civilians and police victims of protests between 2017 and 2025 was outrightly unconstitutional, as affirmed by the High Court in December 2025.
Given the direct involvement of past and present regimes in human rights violations, the group argues that any proposed framework under the charge of the President/Executive risks becoming another exercise in whitewashing and cover-up rather than a vehicle for truth, justice, and accountability.
“All state attempts to deploy any other mechanism under the Executive’s thumb would be a political ploy to shield state agencies, particularly the National Police Service, from accountability for the killings, injuries, and widespread violations committed against citizens exercising their constitutional right to assemble, demonstrate, and petition under the Constitution.”
The 'truth report' by the faction adds, “This is also a political tactic to derail justice and hoodwink victims and society. Kenya does not need a parallel, illegitimate body created outside the constitutional framework.”
While launching parallel report to the 10-Point Agenda by the Agnes Zani led team, Linda Mwananchi lamented that despite Article 37 guaranteeing the right to peaceful assembly, enforcement practices often emphasize control rather than facilitation.
The team says there are continued concerns on the exercise of this right, given the continued number of citizens, especially young people, who have been arbitrarily arrested, injured or killed in protests or jail, or tortured in police custody.
They added that the July 7, 2025 (Saba Saba) protests recorded 31 deaths and more than 500 arrests, with at least 38 killed over five days.
“But despite overwhelming documentation by the Independent Policing Oversight Authority, KNCHR, and civil society, impunity persists. No senior officials have been prosecuted, IPOA has failed to publish its findings from these incidents, and only two cases linked to the killing of protestors have reached the courts,” the report states.
The report claims that President William Ruto disregarded existing constitutional and legal frameworks and established a compensation panel, which was declared unconstitutional by the court.
Since the start of the year, the Kenya Human Rights Commission has documented at least seven police killings across the country, it adds.
“More than 250 people have been killed by police since the Kenya Kwanza regime took office; the actual numbers could be far higher, as the regime has deliberately concealed and tampered with evidence to mask the true scale of its abuses.”
Despite the reports promised under the BBG deal, the Sifuna team insists rogue police units run riot all over the country, that police reforms are a pipe dream, and the security services have failed to take responsibility for the emerging culture of brutality meted out by members of their ranks.
“Meanwhile, breaking up of peaceful assemblies by police continues. A quick glance at a few cases includes a rally in Kitengela on February 15, 2026, another rally in Kakamega on February 21, 2026 and a vicious attack on a church service in Nyeri on January 26, 2026, at which women and children were injured following that brutality.”
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