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DPP Ingonga seeks transfer of Baby Pendo murder trial to Kisumu

Senior police officers linked to the killing of Baby Pendo and other people during the 2017 post-election violence in Kisumu county before Milimani Law Courts, on May 5, 2025. Six of them were acquitted. [Collins Kweyu, Standard]

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Renson Ingonga has applied to have the murder trial of Baby Samantha Pendo and related charges arising from the 2017 post-election violence transferred from the High Court in Nairobi to the High Court in Kisumu.

In an application filed in court through Principal Prosecution Counsel Victor Juma Owiti, the DPP is seeking orders to relocate the trial of four senior police officers, John Chengo Masha, Linah Kosgey, Cyprine Robi Wankio, and James Rono, to Kisumu for hearing and determination.

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