The independent policing oversight authority now says a total of 127 deaths were recorded in three major protests in the country.
The authority says 2024 anti-finance bill demonstrations left 62 people dead as per it's records, while last year's commemoration of those protests and death resulted in another 27 deaths. 38 people were killed in the same year in the Saba Saba commemoration. Ipoa also says that the efforts to bring perpetrators of these acts to book have resulted In three cases now being prosecuted in court, while a further three have been forwarded to the ODPP for review and direction. the authority however, says the slow pace of investigation is informed by an equally slow pace of action from the national forensic laboratory and the government chemist, as well as insufficient evidence.
