One of the public institutions that I hold in great contempt
is the Kenya police, this does not culminate from my criminal inclinations or
anything sinister but the mere spite I have for this people. The police have
for a long time been used as a broom for cleaning someone’s mess.
If there is an institution that people are required to have,
high levels of education are the law enforcement agency. But look at what has
been happening in police recruitment exercises, we are basically taking those
people that have refused to partake in the activity of going to school to head
our security, am not shocked that we keep getting bombed even at the heart of
our secure area. Security personnel who cannot act on intelligence, in order to
override an impending crisis is not worth their name.
The police force ought to carry out a drastic face lift to
weed out all those pot bellied officers who have neither brain nor strength to
fire a bullet. No offence to any officer reading this post, but just imagine a
policeman with a degree (thumbs up for those that have made the stride), a
person who can be able to articulate matters with the correct attitude not
solving issues with a series of meaningless questions only aimed at ridiculing
the respondent, if they would have taken their time to stay in class and gain
something they would know that some people have actually answered so many questions
that they don't have the patience to respond to stupidly structured questions designed to annoy.
I think the police force is one of those institutions with
the least academicians and even those that exist, are those that that first
went to school before joining the police as specialists. Police only take pride
in their ranks, I think this is the only place that you get a rank without
doing anything for instance let me say sergeant or corporal any ordinary police
has that title without struggle just go
out gun blazing and kill a few thieves and innocent Kenyan and kaboom! you have
a higher rank. I would be happy to one day see the police having a Dr at the beginning
of their name and not simply the major someone there.
It’s also not a shock that the police commissioner vow to
sabotage any attempts to put a civilian
to head the police force, this shows a deliberate endeavor to lock out knowledgeable
persons from the highly tainted police force. The force is so rotten that they
cannot afford an external person coming to laugh at their inaptness 
The other day I was in a social joint in my neighborhood,
when skimpily dressed emaciated so called police raided my joint demanding to
see the license of operation, the manner that they conducted the operation
pitted me against them totally, common good manners has disserted some people,
uttering obscenities they went ahead to
confiscate the liquor while manhandling the ladies at the counter, I was so
shocked because this are the same guys that come every day to collect their
cut, I wondered what had happened that day? Education, a very basic right and
they refused it how weird. It looks to me like these guys only read the part of
the law that say prohibit, offense and arrest coz that’s what they come to do.
The Kenya we want is the Kenya with policemen with degrees period.
Why would some of us go to law school
and toil then we come to be handled by nincompoops, this people are in charge
of major investigations in this country yet they are ill equipped, yes ill equipped
not with facilities but with knowledge upstairs. So don’t wonder when high caliber
criminals walk scot free because of shoddy investigation by the police because,
criminals are actually among the most learned people in society only that they
got tired of earning an honest living or are too lazy to work for money. On that
note I pen down and hope that I get to live another day check on me just in
case………….
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