David Maraga: People should know that when you don’t have competitive recruitment, anybody who is admitted by the President is going to be loyal to the President and not to the country.
I don't think many Kenyans have understood the weight of the figures David Maraga released yesterday.
According to the former Chief Justice @dkmaraga, 3,958 Kenyans have been killed by police since President William Ruto came to power, an average of roughly 990 deaths every year.
Now put that number next to the country's terrorism figures.
Available Kenyan terrorism data records roughly 343 terror-related deaths between 2022 and 2025.
That means the number of Kenyans Maraga says have been killed by police is more than 11 times the number of people killed in terror-related violence over the same four-year period. Think about that.
We have spent years being told to fear Al-Shabaab terrorism, and violent extremism as some of the greatest threats to our national security.
And rightly so.
But what does it say about the state of our country when the number of people reportedly killed by the police is an order of magnitude greater than those killed in terror-related attacks?
The police are supposed to protect citizens from violence.
They are supposed to be the institution standing between citizens and those who want to harm them.
The State gives them uniforms, guns, training, and extraordinary powers because we are supposed to trust them with our lives.
So when thousands of citizens are reportedly dying at the hands of the very institution tasked with protecting them, this is no longer simply a conversation about police brutality. It is a national security question.
Who is protecting Kenyans from those who are supposed to protect Kenyans?
And perhaps that is the figure we should all be struggling to comprehend: 3,958.
Not a statistic.
Not a political talking point.
3,958 human beings.
3,958 families.
3,958 stories.
3,958 people who did not go home.
And if a terrorist organization killed anything close to that number of Kenyans, we would quite rightly call it a national catastrophe.
So why should the identity of the person holding the gun change the seriousness with which we treat the death?
A terrorist killing a Kenyan is a threat to the State.
A police officer unlawfully killing a Kenyan is also a threat to the State.
The difference is that one is supposed to be our enemy. The other is supposed to be our protector.
With all due Respect Mhesh.
Homa Bay has been allocated roughly Sh88 BILLION in equitable share alone since the start of devolution, and about Sh33 BILLION of that has come during Gladys Al Wanga’s term.
Why are Homabayians still being told “marginalisation” every time they ask why the roads look bad? 😭
David impregnated somebody's wife and then killed him; god forgave him and even made the child conceived out of that union the King of Israel. Adam just ate an ordinary apple; he has never been forgiven to date.
The husband to former Meru Governor Kawira Mwangaza Murega Baichu has dropp a new song called SIFUNA that should find it's way to the State House WhatsApp group.
Former National Treasury CS, Prof. Njuguna Ndung'u, says whereas institutions in Kenya have the capacity to do the right thing, "the current President overruns all the institutions and that is why everybody in those institutions will have to conform, for fear"
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These videos need to be played on every platform as a reminder of who Ruto is and what violence did to the people of Kenya.
It’s not a coincidence that the goonism is on rampant,what is the common factor, none other than the Current President of Kenya.