Calling on the
Inspector General to style up
While we no doubt have a digital government, I must state
that we do have an analogue police chief !
Kimaiyo must be having a hangover of the repressive and
extremely brutal Moi state, when Kenya was officially a police state.
Immediately he took office, Kimaiyo officially “assumed
power”
For starters, during
last year’s presidential campaigns he did what hasn’t been done before in this
country - attempting to determine campaign content for
politicians ! He purported to decide
what was to be and what was not to be part of presidential aspirants campaign
pledges and promises to the electorate !
. Kimaiyo purported to order all
presidential aspirants to exclude from their campaign speeches and pledges
issues to do with land grabbing and landlessness, hence attempting to bar
campaigners from even promising that if elected they would shun land grabbing.
After the elections Kimaiyo single handedly turned back the
gains we have achieved over the years, he made it illegal for Kenyan citizens
to assemble outside their own supreme court ! . In this day and age, he went on
to make it an offence for citizens (numbering more than five) to discuss
politics on the streets of Nairobi (a
ban on any or all public discussions of politics) !!!!
Yet he wasn’t done, during the Westgate attack when word went
round that soldiers were allegedly looting the shops in the mall, and video
clips of soldiers each carrying paper bags (as if they were just coming from
shopping), Kimaiyo threatened journalists with arrest and warned them against
broadcasting any content of the CCTV cameras inside the mall.
Just this month he banned junior police officers from
addressing journalists and the media for that matter !
The IG being as consistent as he is I can only imagine what
he will next attempt to ban – maybe he should try banning the annual Transparency
International Corruption Index rankings
!
Am thus convinced that our dear IG no doubt lives in the
past and obviously misses the Nyayo era , but he has no choice but to style up,
for we are in the digital era, with a digital team at the helm .
Isurusi Yebumarachi
Butula Sub-County
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