Govt Considering a Memorial in Shakahola to Remember Cult Victims CapitalFMKenya: Kenya
Kindiki made the announcement Monday in Kilifi County where the postmortem examination of 109 bodies recovered from Shakahola forest commenced.
"We are also contemplating on what to do eventually with that scene of crime and once the process of exhumation, search and rescue is complete," he stated. The Interior CS sent a message of sympathy to the victims' relatives and assured Kenyans that the government will not allow such a crime to take place on the Kenyan soil again.
"Other than establishing the circumstances under which this offences took place, the commission of inquiry will also investigate and make recommendations on action to be taken against any public officer whose, action, inaction, failure, or outright negligence could have caused the deaths that have occurred on our people," he said.
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