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What happens when law enforcers become lawbreakers? When Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua dressed down Nakuru County Commander Peter Mwanzo, for evicting some families from a disputed land without consulting, there was a national outcry.
He was echoing previous administrations' outrage. The police have always acted as instruments of regime protection from the time the Imperial British East African Company assembled a gang of men into what it called askaris in 1888 and professionalised them with imported trained officers from India.
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