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Don't forget we are a democracy, Mr Nkaissery

Interior CS Joseph Nkaissery

I cringed when I saw the country's Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery on TV threatening farmers and herders in Narok with extra-judicial killing. It was scary coming from the man who advises the President on all matters of internal security. It was shocking.

The minister, with the top security bosses watching, imposed a curfew and declared that anyone found walking at night will have to face the music. Then he declared that "there will be no fine" for any person arrested.

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