President William Ruto has reaffirmed his commitment to protecting Kenyans from what he termed as rogue police officers amid cases of alleged police brutality in the country.
According to the President, they are going to hold responsible anyone who brutalises Kenyans in the course of their work.
Speaking on Friday when he presided over the destruction of illicit small arms and light weapons in Ngong, Kajiado County, Ruto emphasised the importance of security officers in upholding the rule of law.
“We will protect citizens from rogue police officers and make sure that we hold to account so that we can have a nation that is based on the rule of law, where everybody is serving under the rule of law,” he stated.
The event also doubled up as a commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Regional Centre on Small Arms (RECSA).
RECSA is an inter-governmental organisation with a mandate of coordinating the implementation of the Nairobi Protocol on the Prevention, Control and Reduction of small arms and light weapons in the Great Lakes Region, the Horn of Africa and Bordering States.
There are 15 RECSA member states in the Great Lakes region and the Horn of Africa signatories to the Nairobi Declaration and Nairobi Protocol.
These are Burundi, Central Africa Republic, Republic of Congo, DR Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania.