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.
Chanting opposition slogan ‘one-term’, Kenyan protesters clash with police over President Ruto’s ‘bad governance’
Kenyan youth remain unhappy with the current administration due to corruption, rising cost of living and police brutality, and the recent death of a blogger in custody. The close-range shooting of a civilian during recent protests has exacerbated public anger.
Protests sweep Kenyan cities as East African nation commemorates young victims of extrajudicial killings
The death of blogger Albert Ojwang has become a lightning rod for Kenyans still mourning the deaths of protesters killed at last year’s demonstrations, blamed on security forces, along with rights groups claims of dozens of unexplained abductions.
Police to be charged with murder of blogger’s death in custody as Kenyan president warns protesters
Albert Ojwang died earlier this month following his arrest as part of an investigation triggered by a complaint by the deputy national police chief, Eliud Lagat.
