Police in Dar es Salaam has shot down a gun wielding assailant who was on a shooting spree roaming the Ali Hassan Mwinyi Road from the Selanda Bridge area. The man whose identity is yet to be established was trotting the streets while wielding two assault rifles with city dwellers at his mercy.Road users on […]
Police constables George Wathania, Kibet Chemipei and Boniface Muthama are the officers recorded clobbering Allan Omondi, the JKUAT student who was caught while running to safety. The students who were demonstrating the increased insecurity in Juja clashed with anti-riot police and, as some alleged on social media, angry locals who were supporting the police brutality. […]
Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Interior & Coordination of National Government Dr. Fred Matiang’i has issued a statement through his official twitter account regarding an amateur video recorded in Juja that exhibited a few tricks and merciless ‘techniques’ our forces graduated with after a year-plus training on how to handle riot by unarmed citizens. In the […]
Last week, Kenya Insights highlighed how City lawyer Willie Kimani His client Josephat Mwenda And Taxi Driver Joseph Muiruri Were Suffocated To Death. The victims were kidnapped after leaving the Mavoko Law courts on June 23, 2016. A week later, their bodies were retrieved from the Athi River, near Donyo Sabuk police post, stashed in […]
Yesterday, Kenya Insights posted a detailed witness confession of how Laywer Willie Kimani, his client Josephat Mwenda and Taxi driver Joseph Muiruri were suffocated to death by Police officers using polythene bags. And today, on Tuesday, the High Court is set to hear more evidence in the trial of four police officers and their informer […]
In Kenya, Police officers are known popularly as AFANDE! A phrase shortened from “A Fine Day Sir”, and China being the world’s fastest tech innovators have now launched their first-ever robotic patrol Police officer RPO, named WALI. According to China Police, Wali is powered with advanced 5G technology and high-definition cameras, the smart robot has […]
Keeping law and order has been proved to be every country’s biggest agenda. No one is safe until they feel safe. As much as safety starts with you, there are State personnel specially and specifically deployed to make sure there is law and order. Keeping law and order in Kenya is the mandate of the […]
Another case of killing for anger has striked Maralal area. A senior police officer was on Saturday night shot dead by his junior at their camp in Maralal. The two are said to have disagreed over the a foreign financial relationship. Contrary to the story on the ground, Samburu County police commander Karanja Muiruri said […]
Kenyans have turned to beasts and taking the law of life in their own hands. Every family feud nowadays has been recorded with casualties. The appetite to kill from frustrations has reached the peak. On Earth night, A man killed his wife and her lover. It’s alleged that the man bursted the two having an affair […]
Another case of child defilement at the Lakeside beaches has been reported. The culprit, John Ouma alias Salim was detained by officers from Gingo Police Station while trying to escape after reportedly defiling a high school girl on Friday night. Mr. Ouma a 45 year old non-professional fisherman at Kabwao beach is said to have […]
Months after they were acquired, there has been not a single mission of successful deployment of the VN-4s to report. Key components, including shock absorbers and air conditioning, don’t work. Kenyan officers have misgivings about them; they do not even know how to operate them properly, let alone maintain them. Almost all have been parked […]
Following Monday’s IEBC protests that CORD staged countrywide, and that turned murderous with police accused of turning brutal against peaceful demonstrators. According to confirmed reports with grapevines having bigger numbers, a total of three people were shot dead by the police with scores hospitalized with serious injuries. In what apparently seemed like an order from […]
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