The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) has expressed regret after a shocking incident of mutilated and decomposing bodies discovered at Kware dumpsite in Mukuru Kwa Njenga, Nairobi.

Police say that they have arrested the main suspect linked to the killings who confessed to having killed 42 women and dumped them in the same dumpsite. So far reports indicate that 10 bodies have been recovered, all of them women.

“The Commission condemns those killings with the strongest terms possible. We condole with families that have lost their loved ones in these heinous killings. We are however saddened by news of the burning of the quarry and hope that this shall not be a damper to full, thorough and complete investigations,” KNCHR says in a statement.

Consequently, the commission says that it has commenced its independent investigations on the matter and will be issuing a comprehensive statement once the inquiry is complete.

The commission is calling for a thorough forensic investigations into the deaths to establish cause and probable time of death.

“As a Commission we call out the lack of investigative conclusion on all those prior cases by the DCI, and urge Parliament and Treasury to allocate us funds to support an exhaustive and definitive enquiry into suspected cases of extra-judicial killings and involuntary deaths,” KNCHR says. “It is time for the truth to be revealed. It is time for families to close the lid on their missing kin. It is time for closure.”