A human rights group in Nakuru wants all county askaris in the county to undergo a compulsory human a rights training on human rights and how to preserve the same rights.
The Nakuru Human Rights Guarantee Group (NHRGG) said that county askaris and officials are known to be common human rights violators due to their lack of knowledge.
Speaking Tuesday at Nakuru town, NHRGG director, Thomas Ngule said that county askaris need to be educated about various human rights and the need to respect and preserve such rights.
“Human rights are very fundamental rights in any jurisdiction and such rights should be respected by every person even in the most difficult situations. The incidences we witnessed recently during the eviction of hawkers from the CBD where hawkers were being beaten and treated as animals were disturbing and it calls for action from the government,” said Ngule.
“They should organize a compulsory human rights training for all the county askaris so that they can be told how they ought to respect human rights because some of them are people who dropped out of school in primary school and have no idea what human rights are,” added Ngule.
The wakulima market chairman David Mwangi, who was with Ngule, supported the idea saying that hawkers have always fallen victims to harassment from county askaris with some sustaining permanent injuries on their bodies.
“There are hawkers in town that came to Nakuru without any form of disability but the harassment by county askaris has made some of them disabled and we support this idea of all of them being taken through a human rights training so that they can know that you don’t deal with human beings like animals,” said Mwangi.