Members of Parliament on Tuesday, November 2, issued an ultimatum to the British Government on the renewal of the Kenya-British military agreement.
MPs told Defense Cabinet Secretary, Eugene Wamalwa, that they would reject the agreement if suspects in the death of a Kenyan mother, Agnes Wanjiru, were not surrendered and prosecuted under the Kenyan law.
The National Assembly is expected to renew the agreement for another five years after it lapsed in 2020.
The defense cooperation agreement between Kenya and the United Kingdom was signed in June by President Uhuru Kenyatta and UK's Prime Minster, Boris Johnson.
Rejecting the agreement would mean military forces from the UK would have to leave their Nanyuki base.
21-year-old Wanjiru's body was found on March 31, 2012 in a septic tank in a hotel in Nanyuki, nearly three months after she went missing.
Nearly a decade later, an article by the Sunday Times revealed that a British soldier had confessed to killing Wanjiru to his colleagues and dumping her body in a septic tank.
Speaking during a meeting with the parliamentary Defense Committee on Tuesday, November 2, Wamalwa stated that Kenya was working to renew the agreement which would then allow the perpetrator to be tried locally.
Wamalwa further stated that the UK had assured his ministry it would deliver the culprits once the pact is renewed.
"Kenya's defense cooperation agreement with the UK gives Kenya civil jurisdiction over the matter. Defense committee wants reassurances that the British suspect will be repatriated to face Kenyan law," he added.
He told the committee that Kenya and the UK were working together to ensure that justice would be served.
Wamalwa added that the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Noordin Haji, was already on the case.
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