President William Ruto must by now have realised the police have no capacity, on account of decades of professional decay, to manage anything without making a mess of the show.
He will be aware that each time the police pour into the streets, they do more harm to his credibility and paint him in such a horrifying tint that even the opposition, with all their firepower, have failed to achieve.
Yet he continues to listen to security plans cobbled together by Inspector General Douglas Kanja and his clueless team every time Gen Z convene to express their strident opinions.
In the past three weeks, the police have murdered scores of youth and maimed hundreds.
President Ruto must ask himself what he gains as a leader who has time and again pledged over and over again that the type of executions in Kenya today would never happen on his watch.
It begins to look plausible there exists elements in the force keen to destroy his credit and trigger national hopelessness that can only be seen as failure of leadership.
The dynamic and inspiring politician with the pulse of the nation at his ngertips looks to have taken a hit and exposed a prickly and hostile variant.
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Quote of the day: “The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.”—Governor of California and 14th US Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren died on July 9, 1974.
