Gunning down of suspected thugs is extremely suspicious

Tables have turned and abnormality is the new normalcy. Police take pride in bringing lives of suspected criminal youths into tragic ends. Unfortunately, the horrendous ordeals are not ending with the continued police brutality over suspects.

The manner in which the police sprayed bullets at a young man in Nairobi’s Eastleigh in a video that went viral depicts how they imbibe indeterminate grace and heroism from such. Two suspected female gangsters equally succumbed to police bullets.

The menace of organised gangs and criminal activities should be tackled from the root. The youth are engaging in felonious activities for lack of jobs. The fact that most of them are languishing in abject poverty make them desire thrilling, but unfortunately short, lives characterised with sex and money.

Before going down hunting and eliminating ambitious youth in cold blood, the narrative of unemployment should be addressed.

 

It is baffling how gangsters and other rogue slum dwellers are in possession of guns yet we have the long arm of the police. It is high time the problem is stemmed from the roots by solving job problems and reviewing the police procedures and principles in especially affected Eastland areas of Nairobi. Kevin Omolo, Maseno.