With regards to the matter of extrajudicial killing, it is unfair for our government to want to make it look like these allegations have started with the recent expose by Aljazeera. These allegations have been with us for a long time but gained more prominence when the war on Mungiki was declared by the late minister for security John Michuki. The government strategy of handling these issue has always been denial even though numerous reports contradict them. Our government cannot wish this allegations away or try to limit our freedoms of speech so that we dont criticize them or hold them accountable to their actions. The only solutions to these allegations is to investigate them and if found to be true, the perpetrators of these heinous crimes must face the full force of the law. Criminals must be brought to justice but we cannot allow our police to result to criminal means to do that. We saw on our tvs the other day when policemen after confronting and shooting suspects downtown, one of the suspects was still alive and the video shows two policemen taking their guns and shooting the suspect on the head as if in a competing manner of who is going to kill him. These suspect had already been shot several times, he was laying on the ground, he wasnt a threat to the police, why execute him? It is such evidences that make us ask questions like what happens in the dark if the police could be brave enough to do that downtown in broad daylight. Introducing draconian laws will not solve our problems, were not suffering from a lack of laws but a breach of that very law as outlined in our constitution by the very people who took an oath to defend and protect it. As we celebrate Jamhuri day today we have to look in the mirror and ask ourselves tough questions. #WeAreKenya.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 06:33:18 +0000
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