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  • Interior CS Fred Matiang’i’s Response On Viral Police Brutality Video

    Interior CS Fred Matiang’i’s Response On Viral Police Brutality Video

    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 video, a JKUAT student named Allan Omondi was captured in between the soldiers boots and clubs receiving a mob beating from soldiers who cared for nothing about his life after.

    Here is the statement CS Matiang’i tweeted.

    https://twitter.com/FredMatiangi/status/1193993128115679234

    https://twitter.com/FredMatiangi/status/1193993131290742784

    Then the Police posted this afterwards

    Here are randomly sampled repliesĀ  of Kenyans on twitter on the posts that the Cabinet Secretary had made.

    https://twitter.com/KlausLehandro/status/1193995886935904257

    https://twitter.com/Arnachical/status/1193996659535028225

     

     

     

     

     

  • Netizen’s Mixed Reactions On Police Brutality Against JKUAT Student

    Netizen’s Mixed Reactions On Police Brutality Against JKUAT Student

    Juja-based JKUAT students have been demonstrating for a better part of the day and the State deployed anti-riot teams to ‘calm down’ the situation. Students were demonstrating against increased insecurity in and around the institution.

    An amateur video recorded in Juja exhibits 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 video, a JKUAT student named Allan Omondi, was captured in between the soldiers boots and clubs receiving a mob beating from soldiers who cared for nothing about his life after.

    The video shows 5 officers violently beating a JKUAT student whose right leg is heavily bandaged. One of the officers is seen kicking his head, tugging his hair, and beating with batons.

    Here is the video courtesy of Linus Kaikai.

    The institution has since been closed and all students ordered to vacate the premises by the end of the day.

    Many Kenyans had mixed reactions on the video that captured yet another police brutality with some alleging that Juja town is full of drug traffickers and unemployed youths that are terrorizing locals and students.

    Here are randomly sampled reactions from Kenyan on Twitter.

    https://twitter.com/johnnjenga/status/1193989248195715073?s=19

    https://twitter.com/nyakwara_albert/status/1193891400871337987?s=19

    https://twitter.com/TonyGachoka/status/1193912751195918337?s=19

    https://twitter.com/HEBabuOwino/status/1193986806678740994?s=19

     

    https://twitter.com/SamNjugunaN/status/1194007177176002564