Official NASA Tallying Centre: ( I know it’s a NASA propaganda channel)
POLICE BRUTALITY
When police clobbered and killed NASA demonstrators including babies Pendo and Samantha after election results declaration, the people not affected cheered.
When CORD demonstrators were killed and others injured during the Okoa Kenya demos, those unaffected said it’s their problem for demonstrating.
When Babu Owino is manhandled together with his lawyer Otiende when the former is being re-arrested , we say he deserved it.
We continue to condone, encourage and support police brutality for political reasons not knowing that we may fall victim someday.
When police officers stormed University of Nairobi hostels yesterday, they didn’t ask for your name, ID or tribe, they clobbered, beat up and arrested anyone they could lay their hands on whether you are Otieno,Kamau, Wepukhulu, Musyoki or Abdi.
All became casualties of war, some as young as one month in campus.
When clinical officers decided to exercise their constitutional right to industrial action in demanding for better terms of work, they were teargassed and their officials injured.
This week, when nurses decided to demonstrate to Afya house and present their grievances, they were teargassed and roughed up.
When a KTN journalist went to cover the demos in Kibera, he was arrested and his equipment confiscated simply because he wore a protective jacket yet his media house had sought licencing for the same.
When a photographer decides to take photos of his wife in the streets of Nairobi, police decide to harass.(He erred by being rude too)
When Matiangi withdraws the security details of Joho, Raila and Co, we celebrate and hail their actions saying, “Watajua sisi ni serikali, Watajua sisi Ndio kusema, Watajua hawajui” forgetting you may be in their shoes tomorrow and you need such security.
If this is not condemned, investigated and responsible officers prosecuted, we shall set a bad precedence.
Tomorrow you will be roughed up and arrested for no valid reason in the streets leaving work at 7pm, but your political affiliation won’t help you out.
Tomorrow, you will be peacefully picketing due to lack of adequate security in your estate and you are teargassed and beaten, your second name won’t come to your rescue.
You will be in town, hawkers are demonstrating and live bullets bullets fired, the live bullets won’t know whether you you NASA or Jubilee. We shall burry you.
Police brutality knows no tribe, no political affiliation, no profession, no names.
The police have become agents of settling political scores, agents of violence and animalistic acts. They can perpetrate injustices and get away with it because their bosses under whose directions they act will protect them.
IPOA has become a toothless dog/puppy amenable to political machinations and influence. No tangible and credible actions have been taken against trigger happy police officers who breach the code of ethics.
Any sane Kenyan must condemn police brutality in the strongest terms possible.
We burry baby Pendo today,tomorrow it’s you and me.
Which side will you be counted in; The side which said, “Let them suffer since am unaffected” or the side which said, “No to police brutality, political affiliation aside”
Just as police brutality knows no tribe or political affiliation, so should we as we fight against it. Let’s all put our differences aside and fight this growing menace before it gets out of hand, before my loved one or your loved one becomes a victim of this circumstance. It’s not right.
Violence is never the answer! Let’s unite and put a stop to this. Whether Jubilee or NASA!!!
You choose!!
Signed
Concerned Citizen
