A section of Kenyans are up in arms on social media to protest what they are terming as brutality against protesters by Kenyan police.
This was during Cord's anti-IEBC demo on Monday.
The criticism has been heightened by circulation of a video online showing a heavily armed police officer beating a protester mercilessly before his colleagues join in. Fears are now rife that Kenya could be slowly sliding into the early 90s' days when police brutality was the order of the day. But this is why 1990s could be different from 2016 and police brutality could just be about to get even worse.
There is a 'new sheriff in town' in the name of armoured police vehicles and police water cannons. For the first time in Kenya's history, protesters are having a taste of being dispersed by a blend of powerful water jets and tear gas canisters Police, it seems, will waste no chance in showcasing their newly acquired status in as far as being equipped is concerned.
Protesters have grown more violent and aimless.
Today's protesters do not seem to agitate for anything substantial or stand for a common course other than blowing whistles, disrupting traffic and looting businesses. With this kind of behaviour, police won't hesitate to be hard on the protesters hell-bent on wreaking havoc.
The man at the helm of the country's interior security is a retired general. Protesters should think twice before going to the streets to express whatever dissatisfactions they may have.
Joseph Nkaissery, the CS Interior, is a no-nonsense retired general said not have a very good human rights record when he served at the Kenyan Defence Forces (KDF). Anti-IEBC protesters can perhaps explain this better. Fear of 2017 pre-election and post-election violence.
Pundits and political analysts have warned severally that Kenya could once again sink into election-related violence if appropriate measures are not taken to avert the same. One of the measures, it looks like, is heightening police brutality ahead of the elections to instill fear.