Endless murders show we have an inept leadership

In Kenya, while the Constitution supposedly guarantees our right to life and ostensibly safeguards it from arbitrary deprivation, the predatory instinct of our police officers continue to override their training with alarming frequency.PHOTO: COURTESY

Suppose a host on a live children’s programme suddenly whipped out a hitherto concealed machete and decapitated several children before he or she could be stopped? What doubt about such a person’s guilt could possibly exist?

Apart from the video footage, tens of thousands of witnesses to the grisly crime, many of them adults, would exist. Would not a trial be a sheer waste of time? If police were called to the scene, why would they not be justified to shoot the TV host turned criminal dead?