Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 10:41:52 -0000 [04:41:52 AM CST]
From: Linda.Mulindi@ . . .
Subject: Re: In defense of the Police

Anthony has a point. We have seen a decline in Mungiki activities. I’m not sure if the case is the same upcountry but on the whole people are less fearful. Shall we query how many people the CIA have killed in the name of their government? Shall the UN also query how many people they have killed in the interest of preserving their country? If losing some rogue allows me to roam freely in my country, extra-judicial or not, I will support it.

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From: edouards
Sent: 02 March 2009 12:29
Subject: Re: In defense of the Police

Kenyans do forget so fast.

it was the order of Michuki that shoot to kill started. this was when he was moved from transport, after he introduced michuki rule which makwere sat on it, to security department.

how about then a situation where police are out to revenge on innocent jamaa, or cover up their dealings with criminals, or even love triangles and shoot you. will you be ok with that?

how dare you forget the woman who laid dead in her house at naivasha while the kid watch due to a straying bullet

Police should account their extra-judicial killing and for all kilings. period

On Mar 2, 10:32 am, Anthony Wangondu wrote:

Last night a gang of 8 jumped over the fence of the plot neighbouring mine, and killed the watchman. They were however, seen by a G4S patrol car who together with a KK patrol car (none of whom are assigned to the victim plot or ours) followed the gang. The gang members were jumping into the neighbourhood houses, causing chaos, shooting in the air. I personally stopped watching the Man U penalty shoot out to ensure that my gals were out of the way of possible gun-fire.

These brave men, accompanied by the embedded policeman, managed to apprehend 7 (presumably one escaped), saving one from angry residents bent on a ‘extra-judicial’ killing.

We have seen an increase of these murderous gangs, be they Mungiki or “haki yetu” types and if left unchecked, we will all live in fear of mafia type gangs who will then openly demand protection fee from all of us. It is a scary prospect. NO amount of hunger, joblessness, despair or alleged anger about elections can justify killing, stealing, looting, raping or depriving citizens of their peace and tranquillity. If any of those guys had got into my house, there was going to be no debate about his life. Let’s not be naive.

I therefore agree with the order to eliminate murderous gangs, while appreciating that this could be misused by a few rotten policemen.

We must never live in fear, just to satisfy the UN guy, we must never live in fear in our own homes.