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Presiding over rogues: The systematic impunity behind police brutality

Interior CS Kipchumba Murkomen with IG Douglas Kanja and DIG Eliud Lagat in a consultation. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

They are everywhere, on patrol, armed and sworn to protect Kenyans. Yet it is in the very hands meant to guard citizens that Kenyans are losing lives.

Innocent Kenyans are shot in the middle of their ordinary lives. Others are harassed, brutalised, and those “lucky” enough to survive arrest and dragged into police cells, where danger still looms because even in police custody, death still finds them.

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