The country's spy agency could have been enlisted by the Ministry of Health in contact tracing of Covid-19 suspects. “Some of the security organs are opaque and uncountable, we don't know when someone in authority over those organs might deploy them to achieve some ulterior motives,” he warned. Churchill said the country's history is replete with situations where security organs have abused the privacy of Kenyans to carry out political assassination and execution of rights defenders. He asked the state to respect human rights and the people's rights to privacy when carrying out their surveillance so that “unscrupulous elements don't access the data to harm innocent Kenyans”. Governments across the world are said to have enlisted the services of their intelligence organs to track Covid-19 contacts.

Source: The Star April 28, 2020 20:15 UTC