Following the assassination of a prominent Pakistani journalist, Arshad Sharif by the local Kenyan Police, international media, Kenyan citizens, and social media users from Kenya are revealing the scandalous history and reputation of the Kenyan Police.
Ahmednasir Abdullahi, a Kenyan lawyer tweeted “Let us not beat about the bush. The Kenya police force operates death squads that kill on the orders of those who call the shots in the chain of command”, he wrote this in the Sunday Nation April 2012 following the extrajudicial Killing of Samir Khan by the police”
Moreover, Al Jazeera also reported how Kenyan Police has trained a death squad to assassinate the suspect instead of arresting and investigating them. Kenyan citizens anonymously reported in an interview that Kenyan Police’s death squad has killed many people across Kenya for financial and political gains.