Mombasa Senator Hassan Omar (C) with Wiper leaders (L-R) Jonathan Mueke, Kalonzo Musyoka and David Musila. Photo/ Hassan Omar/ facebook.com
Mombasa Senator Hassan Omar has criticised government over what he described as its laxity to provide security to Kenyans.The Constitution, he said, was clear that it is the government's duty to ensure all Kenyans and visitors are secure.Recent extra-judicial killings incidents, he added, proved the State no longer values Kenyan's lives."I have read with shocking disbelief my countrymen pushed to the desperate depths of insecurity," he said on Tuesday."Like all Kenyans, I am appalled by the levels of insecurity and share deeply in the concerns that as a nation, we must never live in fear," said Omar.Omar spoke on the day three men were shot and killed in Kiambu.It could not immediately be established whether the people who shot them were security officers or thugs out to terrorise.On Saturday evening a similar incident happened in Nairobi's Eastleigh, Nairobi, when people claimed to be police officers publicly shot two youth said to be members of a criminal gang operating in the area.The video of the shooting went viral on social media eliciting mixed reactions from Kenyans."Petty criminals reign our streets, criminal gangs rob and kill without mercy while terror groups threaten our safety and security," he said."I acknowledge the State's duty to protect and honour the courageous men and women in uniform who in the line of duty pay the ultimate price of their lives to keep you and I safe. The battle for our safety and security has not been lost," he added.Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery in December 2016 unveiled a list of 90 criminal gangs terrorising Kenyans in various regions across the country.