To end runaway insecurity, State must enjoy monopoly of legitimate violence

The efficiency in which hard-core jihadists were killed in their attempt to attack a military base at the Coast has reinforced the notion that monopoly of violence is vested in our security forces.

It was President Uhuru Kenyatta, following the Kapedo killings, who told a strategic security gathering that legitimate monopoly of violence is by the security services of the police and military forces.