Kenya’s president orders police to fracture protesters with gunfire against backdrop of building $9.3 million church at Sate House
The president’s order to police to shoot to maim (viewed as permission to kill) protesters has shocked the East African nation of about 55 million people as it comes barely a week after he announced that he was putting up a Ksh1.2 billion church at State House – the seat of government – as testimony of his commitment to justice and moral uprightness.
Blind, deaf and dumb Ruto: Kenya dances with extrajudicial killings, extreme ethnicity, detention without trial and totalitarianism
President William Ruto won power almost three years ago vowing to protect the poor and end police violence, but he is facing mounting public dissatisfaction over high living costs, corruption and police brutality that could yet seal his fate as a “wantam” leader.
Koome tells police service commission to prioritise rights-based policing, balance rights to assembly and public order
Chairperson of the Board of Council Linda Bukaya welcomed the guests and expressed appreciation to the Chief Justice and all participants and acknowledged the symbolic importance of the ceremony held at the National Museums Building.
Number of people shot dead by Kenyan police during anti-government protests rises to 31
The death of blogger Albert Ojwang in police custody last month has given the protests fresh impetus, fuelling anger against the authorities and bringing hundreds onto the streets.
Transition: Vendor shot by police in Kenyan capital dies after weeks in cabbage state
The Kenyan man who was shot at close range by a police officer during recent protests over a blogger’s death in custody has died, his family announced on Monday evening. Family spokesperson Emily Wanjira said Boniface Kariuki died on Monday afternoon, a day after doctors at the national referral hospital...
Re-imagining Kenya: Political unrest, justice on the streets that fuses fact and fiction to result in Daredevil’s flight from shadows
Kenya’s Gen Z, galvanised by social media hashtags and mobile communication, have driven two synchronised waves of resistance – from #OccupyParliament in June 2024 to renewed June 25, 2025 protests.
Muslims clerics want Interior Minister Murkomen assigned ‘lighter duties’ ahead of planned Saba Saba protests
CIPK National Chair Sheikh Abdalla Ateka said the remarks in which Murkomen was quoted as telling police officers to shoot anyone approaching a police station during demonstrations, were inappropriate and unbecoming of a senior government official.
Kenyan president and cabinet accuse opposition of plotting a coup d’état as he positions kinsmen in strategic positions in military
In the aftermath of the protests that brought the entire country to a halt, Murkomen gave orders to police to shoot-on-sight anybody they perceive as a threat to “national security.” The order since been criticised by human rights activists and envoys accredited to Nairobi, forcing the minister to backtrack.
Why Kenya police brutality is a colonial relic: Time and time, whenever a native was released by an Indian policeman, they’d always say, ‘Oh, I gave him something’
Kenya’s National Police Service is the direct descendant of the colonial police force, created not to serve or protect the population but to control and exploit it. From inception, the police has been the sharp edge of an extractive and violent state.
Amnesty Kenya: 16 Kenyans shot dead in protests against extrajudicial killings, abductions and police brutality
Large crowds were seen earlier heading in the direction of State House, the president’s official residence, in scenes broadcast by Kenyan channel NTV before it and another broadcaster KTN were pulled off the air after defying an order to stop live broadcasts of the demonstrations.
