When Oscar Foundation founder, Oscar King’ara, was killed ten days ago I expected that the government would be embarrassed enough to do something about the seemingly premeditated killings that have rocked the country in the last few months. There seems to be an elaborate plan by the security forces in Kenya to sidestep the judicial system and neutralize suspected criminals. This is wrong. This wrong precisely because as citizens of Kenya we are all entitled to a just trial in court before being punished if found guilty. If we let the politicians decide who is guilty or not what will stop them from using the security apparatus to eliminate political opponents? Commissioner Ali, WE ARE NOT A POLICE STATE. AND IF WE ARE, COME OUT CLEAN AND LET THE WORLD KNOW.
That not a single individual has been arrested and tried for the killing of Mr. Kang’aru or the hundreds of other young Kenyans killed by the mysterious death squad is a shame. It is a shame on the government of president Kibaki and premier Odinga. It is a shame on the Kenyan media who now are fixated on 2012 succession politics and have completely forgotten about the deteriorating condition of security in Kenya. It is a shame on the Kenyan civil society who seem to be willing to stop at issuing statements condemning the killings. Don’t we have investigative journalists who can expose exactly what is going on?
Who is behind these killings? The police commissioner must know. Can’t parliament summon him and have him testify under oath? And why is the attorney general still in office? Mr. Wako, please go home. Your EIGHTEEN years as our attorney general has brought nothing but shame to the Kenyan judiciary. Go home.
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A policeman was shot in cold blood last week at KENCOM in broad daylight by robbers he was about to apprehend.
You and other hundred blogs together with the paper NGO’s in Kenya chose and still choose to look the other way. Oscar was funding Mungiki that was beheading innocent people and circumcising my kinsmen. You choose to idolise Oscar and ignore the poor policeman. Both were Kenyans who died the same way, one fighting for innocent wananchi the other the devils advocate. Now from where you stand who is fooling who???
You need to focus on what your goals are and stop typing too much just for populist opinions. Lets break free from Raila hold on us Luo’s.
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Owuor, your concerns about armed robbers in Kenya are well taken. I have never objected to police killing criminals in self-defense. I don’t think that anyone in their right mind would.
My point here is that we should have respect for due process. If killing criminals without trial becomes the norm (like the report on extra-judicial killings seems to suggest), what will stop the police from killing political opponents of those in government and then framing them? This is not silly populism. It is about respect for the rule of law. If the judiciary is at fault for letting criminals go free, reform the judiciary. If it is the police force, overhaul it. If it is because of a breakdown of the Kenyan urban society, let the sociologists and anthropologists come in and give some suggestions …… But having death squads running around killing Kenyans, criminal or not, will not take us anywhere. Instead it will continue to breed the same lawlessness it is aimed at preventing.
And just for the record. I am not a fan of premier Odinga or Kibaki or any of their lackeys. They have all failed Kenya by their ineffectual, visionless leadership.
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