A video is making rounds on social media in which a police officer is captured asking members of the public to take the law into their arms and deal with anyone they get stealing or raping.
In the video, the officer, who happens to Bondeni Police Station, asks members of the public to lynch guilty criminals before police officers arrive at the scene of crime.
His remarks draw applause for the public as the officer further says that if lynching is the only way of wiping out crime, then let it be.
He went ahead to say that if a suspect is arrested after stabbing someone, and the wound is still fresh then he should be killed before the police arrive at the scene.
According to the officer, if 97 per cent of the people in a given area are law-abiding and three per cent are criminals, then dealing with the latter as long as peace lasts is the better solution.
“We cannot allow few individuals who are criminals to continue disturbing the majority in the society. That is not protected in the law,” he says.
He then told the people he was addressing in what appeared to be a security baraza that Article 24 of the constitution gives power to the people and the police to lynch suspected criminals.
“The constitution under Article 24 says that certain rights can be limited. Such is the right to life which can be limited,” he said.
This comes amid reports that a criminal gang famously known as ‘Confirm’ that has been operating in Nakuru and its environs is slowly regrouping in Bondeni area.
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There’s nothing as Kenyans can do
The nylon paper bags are back the environment is not good
The officers are just looking away