BATUK Stories
The settlement comes after a lengthy legal battle over damages caused by a fire reportedly started during a British military training exercise, which...
The clarification came a day after the committee’s chairperson, Belgut MP Nelson Koech, accused BATUK officials of failing to attend a scheduled sessi...
The 2022 ban was part of a wider push to prevent sexual exploitation across the British military. Since then, the British army has introduced more tra...
The committee had invited Batuk leaders alongside Defence Cabinet Secretary Soipan Tuya to discuss ongoing investigations into misconduct, but only th...
On Monday, London announced that Wigan will return home to serve as Director-General for Strategy and Delivery at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Develo...
Although a suspect was named nearly four years ago, no one has been arrested. Kenyan police have reportedly questioned witnesses in the UK and handed...
Meanwhile, the unresolved 2012 murder of Agnes Wanjiru, a 21-year-old Kenyan mother who was found dead in a septic tank near Nanyuki after spending th...
Yet beneath the polished dispatches and promises of green growth and trade, a festering issue was quietly sidestepped — again. The elephant in the roo...
The Ministry of Defence had earlier opposed the physical appearance of BATUK officers, citing existing protocols. But MPs dismissed that position, say...
The UK Ministry of Defence has since confirmed the development in a statement, noting that one of its "servicemen" has been arrested in Kenya.
While the UK allowed a Kenyan multi-agency team to travel and interrogate the suspect, the outcome of that mission has never been made public by Kenya...
Wanjiru was allegedly killed by a British soldier, and her body dumped in a hotel septic tank two months after her disappearance following a night out...
Kenyan lawyer Kelvin Kubai represents 10 biracial children, some under 18, aiming to take their cases to Britain.
In the documentary, an undercover recording captures a British soldier at the base admitting that soldiers continue to pay for sex.
Chairperson Nelson Koech assured Njoki and other victims' families that the inquiry into crimes allegedly committed by British soldiers would be thoro...
In efforts to fast-track justice for the victims, the National Assembly's Defence Committee has since launched an inquiry into the activities of the B...
One of the most profiled alleged abuses by Batuk is the killing of Agnes Wanjiru in 2012, whose body was found in a Nanyuki hotel’s septic tank.
This comes as the National Assembly Defence Committee probes the conduct of the BATUK, following claims of breaching operational integrity, abuse of p...
More testimonies were shared in Nanyuki, Kenya, before a crowd comprising community members and local politicians, shedding light on the treatment of...
The inquiry follows allegations of corruption, fraud, discrimination, and abuse of power within the unit, as well as mistreatment, torture, unlawful d...
A Kenyan man working for the British military was blown up 17 years ago. The true circumstances of his tragic death can finally be told for the first...
Testimonies by military officers who were working at Batuk at the time linked Sgt Maddison to the crime.
King Charles III is steering clear of the British base at Nanyuki during a royal visit to Kenya next week that has stirred mixed emotions in the forme...
