They include six in Dandora; two in Mowlem; 10 in Mathare North; four in Majengo; and two in Kayole.
Social Justice Centre and Police Reform Working Group raised a red flag over the rising cases of extrajudicial executions in informal settlements and called on the government to act swiftly and stop the killings.
“We wish to express concern over the increasing incidences of death from police use of lethal force. Over the past one month, incidences of torture and extrajudicial executions implicating police officers have sharply risen,” Mathare Social Justice coordinator Gacheke Gachihi said.
The organisations have been documenting extrajudicial killings in the informal settlements and forwarding the cases to Independent Policing Oversight Authority for investigations and prosecution of the officers implicated in the killings.
Gachihi, who read a joint statement during a press briefing at the Dandora Community Justice Centre said the dreaded officers have been carrying out the executions in open places and in broad daylight . Some of them (police) are well-known to the residents.
He said most of those killed are aged between 14 and 24; some are students, including KCSE candidates while others completed their secondary education less than three years ago.
He cited the killing of three students in Dandora on October 28 and that of a 25 year-old Evans Odhiambo, a mechanic who was picked from Mathare North Hospital on October 26 by armed police officers, only for for his lifeless body to be found at City mortuary with seven gunshot wounds the following day.
The groups urged IPOA and Internal affairs unit to expedite investigations into the executions and prosecute the culprits.