I don’t get the logic behind the double standard. A whole contingent of armed policemen is harassed by panga wielding thugs in Narok until (unfortunately) one loses a hand.
Yet the same police openly and readily open fire on innocent GenZ demonstrators in Nairobi.
Looks like the police are more willing to open fire on a political “crime” than on a real law enforcement issue where Narok residents block a public road. Those thugs in Narok needed to be dealt with ruthlessly the moment they laid their hands on police officers who were there to open a blocked highway.
@Ndindu: I guess I am looking at it globally. Who is the commander that restrains police from using deadly force when their lives are threatened. And yet okays the use of deadly force when young Kenyans are just matching in legal demos!!!
No sane society should allow their law enforcement chaps to be sitting ducks. That first scenario is not tenable
There’s no difference between your logic and that of your so called bandits.
Some issues are more complex than your privileged self can fathom. The Maasai are some of the most underprivileged Kenyans, regime after regime undermined development in their areas and all they have lived to depend on is their animals. To them, their animals is everything. The officers, as I understand, wanted to use force and disregard any concerns the locals had by throwing the animals away from the road. What followed thereafter is chaos. Three young souls lost their lives, an officer his arm and gun. The situation could easily have been calmed by diplomacy but the officers still think colonial era tactics work today. They don’t.
Mijinga Ruto has created enmity and mistrust between the citizens and the police. It will only get worse as time goes. Police bosses snub the dorts but they want ordinary citizens to follow the law.
Your view of things is definitely one-sided and you still sadly can’t see that. You were just a passerby who was prolly inconvenienced by the stalemate. Your view and that of your fellow travellers couldn’t in anyway be objective.
My PhD thesis will be on the ability of the Kenyan forces to deal with an armed resistance. You see police barricades and fronts are to the most part effective in as far as the antagonists are willing to breach them. The Kenyan forces are very formidable against unarmed civilians but faced with one armed even with stones, they fold almost immediately. Last night nilienda kupiga ripoti about a thuggery incident huku kwa ranches. Duty officer alikuwa mmoja Na akaniambia peupe hawezi toka. I had to round up two officers one of whom came totally drunk, in slippers and armed with a stick. Kufika kwa scene wananiwacha niende mbele. Had to assemble some riffraffs and boda guys to help me flush out the miscreants. The officers abandoned the search at some point tukabaki pekee yetu. Tumeshika first suspect at 5am Sisi wenyewe.
Tunapata story nusunusu , ATI police were bribed 2m, the D in minus without hand must have been part of the team that killed the 3 jamaas. Eakasema hutawai shoot Tena wakaanguka na mkono. Waturedio uhondo serve hii chai
From the news report I watched a few minutes ago, the senior cops in that region are all Maasai. If it was anywhere else wangemwaga GSU to clobber and kill some locals in retaliation.