The Independent Policing Oversight Authority (Ipoa) has said that it is ready to conduct a public inquiry on the claims made by President William Ruto on extrajudicial killings.
Speaking on Thursday, Ipoa chairperson Ann Makori said that those who need confidentiality to give information will be granted their wish.
"Investigations into the general crime is the work of the DCI and that is why DCI exists," she said.
"Ipoa will step in and carry out the necessary investigations if from the inquiry we can establish members of the service were involved then it becomes our responsibility."
Makori, however, said that Ipoa has funding challenges and if they get more funding the agency will carry out investigations.
"If we can have the funding that we are seeking, I believe within 90 days we can carry out public inquiries. Most of the work will be within Nairobi and Mombasa and therefore within 90 days we should be able to comprehensively submit a report to that effect," she said.
Ruto had on Wednesday during the first round table interview with the media said that he fired former DCI boss George Kinoti due to the rising cases of forced disappearances and extrajudicial killings in the country.
He said it was saddening that more than 200 bodies of innocent Kenyans continued to be retrieved in rivers and thickets with the cause of their deaths remaining unknown.
He said they will not form another task force to probe the deaths because that is the mandate of Ipoa and he wants it to investigate.
"It is up to Ipoa to tell us how it ended up that Kenyans are killed in this manner and then it was business as usual,30 bodies in Yala, 17 in Garissa, I don't know how many bodies elsewhere," he said.
