OPINION: The buck stops with Uhuru and Raila

No matter what way you look at it the country is at war. People are being chased from their homes, properties are being burnt and looted, roads are being closed... People are dying!! Call it peaceful protests, "people protecting their businesses", retaliatory attacks, protests against police brutality… Or whatever you want. The reality is that it is war, ethnic cleansing, and political intolerance at its best.

"The police started it", some claim. The police don't light bonfires on our roads. Don't get me wrong, there's no defense for excessive and lethal use of force by the police... but sincerely, can it be true that an officer, a person like you and me, woke up early in the morning, prepared for work, took breakfast (or didn't owing to their poor salaries) and maybe bid farewell to their families then walked into the streets with his colleagues and started beating up innocent, harmless civilians? And just how did the government manage to convince the entire police force to turn against the civilian population? The same civilian population that makes up the society, the same society they came from?