At face value, Inspector General Douglas Kanja looks like a decent man capable of enforcing the law.
But behind the amiable façade lives a man who has grave disdain for the very law he swore to uphold and defend.
In any civilised society, Kanja would either have resigned by now.
To our audacious police top brass, the dictates of the constitution apply to the rest of us mere mortals.
Kanja and his police establishment have declined to hand over the powers of hiring and deploying the police to the National Police Service Commission.
The supreme law is clear in Article 246 (3), the NPSC shall recruit and appoint police officers as well as manage their perks.
Kanja, no doubt egged on by his fellow seniors and even high-ranking members of the executive, have unconstitutionally and irregularly made every effort to cling to powers they exercise illegally for reasons best known to themselves.
The high echelons of the police force have enjoyed unfettered power for so long that it has gone to their heads.
But luckily, MPs have come to the rescue and ordered Kanja and his team to hand over to the NPSC within one week.
Hope he will listen.
Quote of the day: “A Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.” — American economist and statistician Milton Friedman was born on July 31, 1912
