Killings reveal extent of police rot

Stung by a scathing report on extrajudicial killings in the police force by UN Special Rapporteur Philip Alston, the Government lambasted the law professor for “failing to understand the country’s peculiarities, recent political problems and the challenges it faces in its healing and reconciliation after the post-election violence.”

A then dumbstruck Police Commissioner Hussein Ali said of the Australian lawyer; “he only spent an hour with us. He was always in a hurry rushing off somewhere. It is not sufficient to write a report. Anyone can make an accusation... it does not take a brain surgeon to come up with one,” he had concluded then. That was 2009.