Extra-judicial killings continue unabated amidst public outrage as mechanisms seem overwhelmed

The shooting to death of Jared Otieno Agalo on the night of August 17 in circumstances that clearly point to another case of extra-judicial killing is among the latest incidents in which police have used brutal force in situations that do not warrant it. These continue to happen as mechanisms established to hold the police to account seem either overwhelmed or simply conniving to cover up blatant breaches of the law.

A report of the fatal shooting as covered in the newspapers quotes multiple eye-witnesses saying that Agalo, a jua kali artisan well-known in Shauri Moyo was having drinks with friends at Vine Pub on Jogoo Road when plain-clothes police officers shot him in the arm.