Let us localise policing to make the Police Service more accountable

As a society, we need to examine our consciences about the deaths of Samantha Pendo in Nyalenda, Kisumu and Moraa Nyarangi in Mathare, Nairobi. Pendo was a six month-old infant. Nyarangi was a nine-year primary school pupil. Both were killed by tax-funded police officers. In effect, both were killed in our name.

Let us forget politics for a second. What kind of society produces men that go about killing children like Pendo and Nyarangi without remorse? Why have we not had enough of public uproar against these two ghastly murders? Why has the police not arrested and began prosecuting the officers that committed these murders? Why did the police feel the need, instead, to defend their own and claim that these children were killed by thugs?