Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja must be a smart public officer to have entered the force and made his way to the top of the food chain.
But with each day that passes, his tenure looks and feels so appallingly anachronistic; every decision he makes reeks of medieval policing tactics.
He seems to be a true representative of his generation, which believes anyone in a police uniform has to behave like a demigod for whom poor citizens must prostrate themselves in homage.
In his latest ploy, instead of showing up when summoned by MPs, he contrived to delay his appearance and arrogantly decided he would appear at a time of his choice and at a date of his choice.
What he and the police officers occupying the vaulted positions they lord over forget is that they are servants, not of the executive, but of the people.
He had been summoned to show up in Parliament on Tuesday to explain why he cannot let the NPSC work by clinging to the police payroll against the law, but decided he is too important to obey.
Kanja must realise quickly that the 2010 constitution shifted power to the National Police Service Commission, which he is hell-bent on frustrating.
Quote of the day: “I do not want history to record me as someone who has bequeathed to his nation the institution of despotism.” —Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, on September 4, 1919, gathered a congress in Sivas to make decisions as to the future of Anatolia and Thrace.
