Kenya is not new as far as mysterious killings are concerned. We just need to think about the likes of Robert Ouko, JM Kariuki, Pio Gama Pinto among others.
Closer in time we can name businessman Jacob Juma, Kabete MP George Muchai and the latest crime wave of slain Lawyer Willie Kimani, taxi driver and his client.
Who is to blame for these killings? Majority of the citizens have turned against the police.
Major dailies have written about the double standards of the police at the moment. What is worrying is the fact that when these killings are associated with the police, cases roll back and forth until they disappear with the families never getting justice.
On Tuesday, Nairobi residents retaliated and 'rescued' a man who had been arrested and handcuffed by the police for allegedly doing 'nothing'.
They argued that police arrested and tortured people without trial. You just have to read Benjamin Bundeh's account in 'Birds of Kamiti' to get what I mean.
Aljazeera carried a story that Kenyan police are five times likely to shoot a citizen than a criminal with often little or no investigation by the state into the circumstances surrounding the killing.
If this is true, IPOA must live up to its mandate to bust this myth of police double standards.