Kindiki says police don't have shoot to kill order in controlling Azimio demos

A police officer arrests a man who was trying to take videos of the demonstration using his mobile phone on March 27, 2023, during the anti-Government demonstration in Migori town. [Caleb Kingwara, Standard]

Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki has said the government has not issued a shoot-to-kill order in controlling crowds in the country and has got a zero-tolerance policy towards extrajudicial killings.

Prof Kindiki, who made his maiden appearance before the National Assembly to answer questions raised by members said the National Police Service Internal Affairs Unit and Independent Police Oversight Authority (Ipoa) were investigating the killing of a bodaboda operator in Chuka, Tharaka Nithi County.