A report on police killings and enforced disappearances in 2022 has revealed the identities of some of the victims who are believed to have been killed before being dumped in River Yala.
The report by Missing Voices Coalition was released in Yala, Siaya County on Friday.
It noted that the names of those listed were established following investigations by the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA).
IPOA instituted the probe after 22 bodies were retrieved from the river on diverse dates early 2022.
The number later shot to 36 as more bodies kept turning up on the river banks.
Autopsy results shows that the victims succumbed to various causes.
The report said of the 22 people, 12 were found to have died from head injuries, two from abdominal and chest injuries, three from strangulation, one from drowning , one from head and chest injury and one from peritonitis.
The cause of five deaths were not determined.
"Preliminary investigations point out that the nature of injuries sustained or cause of death point to the same or similar perpetrators, " the report notes.
The report also confirmed that eight out of 13 people reported missing between July 2021 to date were last seen in Nairobi and that two of them were positively identified at the Gala morgue having been retrieved from River Yala.
The report further revealed that some 130 people who died in 2022 were as a result of police killings.
Twenty two others were cases of enforced disappearance, majority of whom are young men and were killed in Nairobi.
"Most of the reported cases are from Nairobi, drawing a conclusion that most of the bodies retrieved from River Yala were are from other counties," the report said.
Below are the names of the victims as listed in the report:
1. Richard Ouma Oreti last seen in Kaptwmbwa on February 18, 2021.
2. Patrick Kiige last seen in Jamhuri Estate, Ngong' Road on June 6,2021
3. Adam Wanga last seen in Mumias on disappeared on July 8, 2021
4. Rockfellor Mapua last seen in Industrial Area on August 6, 2021
5. Kelvin Makokha last seen in Navakholo on January 14, 2021
6. George Otieno Adede last seen in Gori Market on July 15, 2021
7. Edwin Taabu Otuke last seen in Dandora on April 2004
8. Wilson Konda Okumu last seen in Navakholo on August 10, 2020
9. Titus Tisusa last seen in Nairobi on November 16, 2021
10. Yahya Mohammed Hassan last seen in Embu on January 20, 2022
11. Edwin Mutharuki Kamanda last seen in Dandora on December 3, 2021
12. Gaitano Ilavuna Kalasia last seen in Kisumu on September 6, 2021
13. Donosio Oteba Okitui last seen in Busia on December 3, 2021.
14. Geoffrey Njogu last seen in Gikomba on July 8, 2021
15. Stephen Butiya Lairuka last seen in Nairobi on September 30, 2021
16. Fredrick Omondi Okuku, last seen in Njoro on September 14, 2021
17. Peter Mutuku, last seen in Dandora on December 3, 2021
18. Philemon Chepkwony , last seen in Dandora on December 3, 2021
19. Joseph Otieno, last seen on July 9, 2021.
