Kindiki defend police over accusations of extra-judicial executions

The Interior and National Administration Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki has vindicated security agencies against accusations of using excessive force and engaging in extra judicial killings.

Kindiki instead laid the blame on the perpetrators of the demonstrations saying they have availed a wide range of illegal weapons to inflict injuries on, and kill civilians.

According to Kindiki, the National Police Service and other national security organs remain neutral, impartial and professional and shall not be drawn into political, ethnic or such other sectarian nuances whatsoever.

The Cabinet Secretary said that the government is investigating the issue of weapons in wrong hands and put into bad use, promising that culprits will be brought to justice.

“Claims that National Police Service (NPS) officers and other law enforcement personnel are engaged in extrajudicial executions and excessive use of force against the public or any section thereof are malicious, false and intended to distort public opinion regarding the recent orgy of violence that took place in some parts of the country.” Kindiki said in a statement.

“The architects of this false and distorted narrative bear the greatest responsibility for planning, financing and executing heinous crimes resulting in death and injury of civilians and law enforcement officers and massive destruction of private and public property during the past few weeks.”

He added that investigative and intelligence agencies are analyzing evidence in their possession, which he claimed is adequate to prosecute the key planners, executers and financiers of large-scale arson, violent robberies and destruction of infrastructure, as well as death and injury of civilians and security personnel.

During the past week, he claimed, a large cache of conventional and crude weapons, narcotic drugs and cash were intercepted on their way to fuel the riots that rocked some parts of the country.

“Furthermore, it has been established that licensed and unlicensed civilian firearms supplied by the masterminds of the recent violence were used to kill or injure civilians and security personnel, and the blame shifted to security officers. The scale of violence and destruction occasioned by persons masquerading as peaceful protestors exercising their Constitutional rights shock the conscience of mankind.” Kindiki said.

Consequently, according to the CS, relevant agencies of the criminal justice system will proceed to conclude analysis of the available evidence to bring to account all those involved, notwithstanding their antics of politicization and ethnicisation of the grave matter of widespread lawlessness, crime and impunity, in a clear but hopeless ruse aimed at deflecting the inevitable consequence of accountability.

Kindiki assured Kenyans that in the coming days, the masterminds of widespread violence against the people of Kenya, including those associated with the huge consignments of money and weapons which were intercepted on their way to harm the public have a date with accountability.