Nyali Member of Parliament Mohammed Ali has condemned the Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen’s shoot-to-kill directive to police officers.
On Thursday after Gen Z anniversary protest in various parts of Kenya ended up with deaths, injuries, destructions of private and public properties including police stations, an angry Murkomen ordered police to kill protesters nearing the stations.
His utterances were roundly condemned by lawyers, top religious leaders, and human rights activists, who warned it set a dangerous precedent.
Ali, a UDA legislator has termed the order as a chilling endorsement of extrajudicial killings which have no place in Kenya.
Nyali MP Mohammed Ali.
“We are a nation of laws, not executions. The state should never weaponise the police against the people, because power built on bullets is only temporary” Ali said.
Adding; “When the people are no longer with you, not even guns can save you”.