IMANI: Who’s the enemy of the people – poverty or police brutality?

Protesters carry a man who was shot by a police officer in Nairobi CBD on June 17, 2025./DOUGLAS OKIDDY

June is quickly turning into the month when authorities lose it.

Last year, it was the excessive force meted out on protesters, leading to unnecessary deaths of our young people.

The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights reported on July 1 that 39 people died and 361 were injured in relation to the protests countrywide from June 18 to July 1; postmortems were pending.