President William Ruto has spectacularly failed Kenyans on the question of security, and nowhere is that failure more visible than in Nairobi’s Central Business District, the very heartbeat of the nation, where criminals now operate with breathtaking boldness in the full light of day.
The Constitution is clear in placing the responsibility of ensuring the safety of every Kenyan squarely on the shoulders of the president. Ruto has abandoned that responsibility entirely. Kenyans are being robbed, mugged, and stabbed on streets that should be among the most guarded in the country, while police, rather than protecting citizens, are busy shaking down bar operators and demanding bribes from innocent people going about their daily lives.
The situation along Kenyatta Avenue has become particularly alarming. Thieves mounted on motorbikes and armed with knives and machetes are prowling the street in broad daylight, picking out victims and striking without fear of consequence. Their confidence suggests not just a breakdown in policing but something far more troubling, an environment in which criminality has been allowed to thrive unchecked, if not outright enabled by a corrupt Nairobi police department that appears unbothered by what is happening right under its nose.
An incident captured on camera on Thursday laid bare the grim reality of what Nairobi has become under this administration. The footage shows just how thoroughly the city has been surrendered to thugs, even as Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen continues to appear on television and radio with a straight face, insisting that the country is safe and that security agencies have everything under control.
Murkomen and his colleagues can keep singing their favourite tune. But for the pedestrian on Kenyatta Avenue dodging a machete on a Thursday afternoon, those words offer absolutely no comfort.
Here is the video>>>>
https://twitter.com/citynews254/status/2065432585325424969/video/1
