Nairobi, Kenya — The family of Benedict Kabiru Kuria, a 34-year-old Kenyan police officer who disappeared while on a peacekeeping mission in Haiti, has sued the government over its continued silence and failure to clarify his fate.
Kabiru, who joined the Multinational Security Support Mission to Haiti on July 15, 2024, was among the second group of officers deployed to the gang-plagued Caribbean nation.
While Haiti’s Presidential Transitional Council announced on March 27, 2025, that the officer had been fatally ambushed by gangs, Kenya’s National Police Service (NPS) contradicted this, stating that the officer was merely “missing.” Since then, the state has not issued any updates, and his whereabouts remain unknown.
Frustrated by the lack of answers, Kabiru’s family has taken legal action, suing Attorney General Dorcas Oduor, Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja, the National Police Service Commission, Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen, and Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi.
The family claims that the government’s inaction and conflicting information have caused them immense psychological anguish.
“Everyone has gone silent since we started pressing them to give us a true account of what happened to our son,” the family says.
The petition outlines how the Director of Operations at the Kenya Police Headquarters dismissed Haiti’s official statement, terming it “fake news” and labeling reports circulating on social media as misleading.
According to the family, the government has neither confirmed nor denied Kabiru’s death, nor have they disclosed whether any formal investigation is underway.
They argue that the prolonged silence constitutes negligence and a violation of their rights to information and dignity, and are seeking court intervention to compel the government to produce credible information on Kabiru’s fate.
