From: olpha bosibori
The extent of the drugs menace in Kenya as exposed yesterday by MP Gitobu Imanyara, and the acknowledgement by none other than the Prime Minister that drug cartels are operation with the help and protection of our security forces is something that cannot be taken lightly.
That police officers brave enough trying to investigate such are either executed, transferred threatened with death and have to go into hiding shows the lack of will to deal with this menace. This is the case of one officer, Senior Superintendent of Police Mohammed Jarissa Godana on whose investigations Imanyara presented the report to Parliament. Kenya begins to sound like Mexico and some of our towns, especially at the Coast are beginning to sound like areas ruled by mobsters and mafias in the early years of drug wars in the US and Mexico. This is a situation that MUST be brought under control immediately.
This is why VVM demands the immediate re-organization of the Anti-Narcotics Police Unit which seems to have been fatally infiltrated by drug barons. The rot in this police unit cannot ensure it fights drugs effectively hence the need to replacement of all officers in the unit, with full independent investigations into the involvement of law enforcement officers into this criminal activities. Those culpable should face the full force of the law, including jail terms that will be a deterrent to any such officers who may be tempted to traffic with criminals in the course of discharging their duties.
The government must not only acknowledge such gravity of the situation, Kenyans needs to see a structured, focused and determined action towards wiping out this menace. That the American Government has given names to KACC regarding 5 prominent public servants, among them serving Cabinet Ministers involved in drug trade is not only a grave situation but an affront on the Kenyan people for such people to continue serving in Cabinet at the pleasure of the President and Prime Minister. It is an indictment on our investigative arms such as NSIS and CID concerned with gathering information which we prop expensively on our taxes to be snoring on the job while drugs are awash in Kenya, killing and rendering our youth, the future of this country, impotent.
Kenyans demand action, and we demand it now. It is not the time to try and give excuses why such enemies of society cannot be publicly NAMED AND SHAMED unless the government wants to protect identities for political reasons. It is also time wealth declarations become a must for public officers. Kenya is awash with suddenly rich paupers of yesterday gearing to take up the highest offices in the land.
Olpha Bosibori-VVM Secretary General.
For Communications and Media Committee-VVM
Email: secretary@vuguvugumashinani.or.ke
Tel: 0208080937
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