Douglas Lucas Kivoi

Jun 27, 2024 | the-star.co.ke | Douglas Lucas Kivoi

Successive regimes have attempted to institute reforms to address this impunity, but with little success. Policing agencies continue to use excessive force on the poor and vulnerable. In some cases, rogue officers obstruct operations of oversight authorities. Police manhandle a protester during his arrest on Moi Avenue in Nairobi, June 27, 2024. Police brutality and impunity are nothing new in Kenya.

Jun 26, 2024 | theconversation.com | Moina Spooner |Douglas Lucas Kivoi |Emma Elfversson |Gedion Onyango |Kamau Wairuri |Kristine Höglund | +3 more

Kenya’s police are being criticised for their violent response to protests over the past week against government proposals to . Hundreds of thousands of people, across 35 of Kenya’s 37 counties, have poured out onto the streets in opposition to the tax hikes. The police have reacted with force, using live bullets and tear gas. At least five people are known to have been killed and hundreds have been injured. The reaction by the police force didn’t come as a surprise.