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EDITORIAL: Rid police service of the few rotten officers
What you need to know:
- In the past weeks, several cases have been reported across the country, which shows an unending trend of recklessness and indiscipline among the officers.
- There are also many cases of cruelty on hapless citizens that go unnoticed under the cover of the curfew.
- People have been harassed and tortured over miscellaneous misdemeanors such as not wearing face masks properly.
The recent killing of a cart pusher in Nairobi’s Mathare slums once again spotlights incessant police brutality. It highlights continuing high-handedness that has come to characterise the police service. Coming against the backdrop of widely publicised ruthless crackdown on citizens found to have disobeyed the dusk-to-dawn curfew, the incident has to be properly investigated and perpetrators arraigned to face criminal charges. The desire is to clean the police service of errant officers who misuse their powers to inflict pain and harm on citizens.
In the past weeks, several cases have been reported across the country, which shows an unending trend of recklessness and indiscipline among the officers. There are also many cases of cruelty on hapless citizens that go unnoticed under the cover of the curfew. People have been harassed and tortured over miscellaneous misdemeanors such as not wearing face masks properly.
