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IG Boinett come clean on rogue police who shoot, kill the innocent

Inspector General Joseph Boinnet. [Photo: Courtesy]

Kenyans on Saturday ushered in a new era of unity. The likes of Inspector General Joseph Boinnet must be feeling restless in their posh seats if they are not ready to change with the times and realise that citizens are equal before the law regardless of their ethnicity or political inclination.

I recently watched on national television Mr Boinnet struggle to parry accusations that his men were responsible for the bludgeoning to death of six-month-old Baby Samantha Pendo in Kisumu and the shooting of 10-year-old Stephanie Moraa in Nairobi’s Mathare slums during last year’s post-election violence.

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