State abdicating its role to govern and entrusting violent groups to take over

Day after day we read of tragic events in our nation—killings by the Al-Shabaab in the northern parts of our country; disappearances of directors of a land buying company in Murang’a; panga-wielding youths urged by an MP to get ready to cut political opponents to pieces rather than waste their time cutting grass; youths in a school knifing each other to death over some love affairs gone sour.

Then, to add insult to injury, the President himself lets loose marauding parliamentarians to take law into their own hands, destroying business enterprises suspected to be selling illicit brews. Don’t we have a Ministry of Internal Security? Don’t we have county governments in charge of giving liquor licences? Don’t we have a police force to keep law and order?