Kenyans continue to share their displeasure about the brutality shown by Anti Riot Police during CORD’s protests that are scheduled to happen every Monday until the IEBC commissioners resign and the electoral authority disbanded.
This week’s demos were marred with rampant images of police dealing with protesters cacamoniously as their leaders drove off immediately one teargas was launched.
That means,incase you happen to be on the grounds you are on your own. Politicians ain’t loyal. .
The man who made or rather caused this aggravation after reports spread that he’d died as a result of police beatings one Boniface Manono, who was earlier identified as Ben Ngatia is lucky to be alive.
Anyway,journalist,Wahome Thuku,has a few things he’d like the police who beat up Boniface Manono and those who are always dispatched to such occasions to protect and deal with the protesters and goons to read and learn.
Wahome writes. .
THIS MESSAGE should go to the police officer who excitedly clobbered a demonstrator on city streets, and to any other cop occasionally deployed to such assignments and with such intentions. I will tell you this as a brother, a very seasoned journalist and an Advocate. Thank your God that the man you worked on so hard almost to a point of peeing on him survived. Or so I heard eventually. Had he died, a cloud of darkness would have descended on you and your family for ever. And reality would have hit home. So you ask HOW? If you want an answer look for one PC Edward Kirui, the cop charged with shooting two rioting youths during PEV and who spent years in prison. Those two were even pelting stones not just hiding in a building. Ask the AP officers who shot taxi drivers to death in Dagoretti. Look for your fellow cops charged with the murder of a young Kwekwe Mwandaza at the coast. Ask your former boss Hussein Ali what happened to him after the PEV. And history is littered with such other cases. All your seniors would have washed off their hands and you would have been on your own sir. For the first time, the public would have been treated to 3D photos of your face in the dock at the Milimani High Court to face murder charge. Not even facebookers and twitter supporters would have gotten you out of it. And as you work to raise 2million cash bail, we would have moved on to other matters. I covered the Kirui case from start to end. The man would not believe how life had turned against him for “doing his job”. There was no bail for murder suspects and he had to live in prison. The first thing that saved him was the helmet cover as noone was ever able to identify his face in court. That and the fact that his firearm had a mix up. Today he would be rotting in jail.
DEAR cops, I promise we will cheer you up as you go amok and clobber everyone in the streets. But remember if anything goes wrong, you are on your own brother…YOUR OWN.
