Rewards of condoning police criminality are here

A couple of years ago I warned of dangers of deluding ourselves that we can condone criminality in some corners of the Kenyan State and not others. That there can be a difference between “normal” crime, to be prevented and punished by law enforcement and the judicial system; and State-sanctioned criminality that benefits those in power. Let me reiterate, this is a lie that will sink us all.

Take the example of the gruesome killings of Willie Kimani, Josephat Mwenda, and Joseph Muiruri. Their deaths remind us of something that we typically like to ignore: the fact that no one is safe from the criminality that has infested the entire State system. Not sitting members of Parliament.