Wiper Patriotic Front party leader Kalonzo Musyoka has promised total reforms in the National Police Service.
The former Vice President has further promised to investigate and charge police officers who have misused their mandate.
“When we form the next government after the August 10, 2027, general elections, we will deliver comprehensive police reform. We will ensure every abduction and every death in custody is independently investigated, and those responsible held fully accountable,” Kalonzo said in a statement to the media houses.
“We will end the use of unmarked vehicles and unidentified officers against civilians. We will build a police service that answers to the Constitution, not to political power. To the pioneers of Saba Saba and to the young patriots carrying that torch today: yours is one struggle, united by one purpose, to build a freer, more just, and more democratic Kenya.”
Police condemned
Kalonzo also condemned police for carrying out their operations in plainclothes despite a court order banning the same.
“Plainclothes and masked officers have forcibly seized young Kenyans from our streets into unmarked vehicles across the country while concealing their identities in blatant disregard of the rule of law and existing court orders,” Kalonzo argued.
“This is not policing. This is intimidation in service of a regime that fears its own people. Even more disturbing is the growing pattern of police officers appearing to act alongside, or provide protection to, organised criminal gangs and militia groups that have terrorised innocent Kenyans in broad daylight.”
Police reminded of their core duties
The former Mwingi North Member of Parliament revisited the chaos that has disrupted political rallies in the recent past and condemned the police for not acting.
“We witnessed this during the attacks on the Linda Mwananchi team in Kisii, at a hotel in Westlands, Nairobi, and along Thika Road, where citizens were robbed and assaulted while law enforcement officers either stood by or failed to intervene. Such conduct gravely undermines public confidence in the National Police Service and has no place in a constitutional democracy,” he said.
“I remind the National Police Service of its own motto: ‘Utumishi Kwa Wote — Service to All’. Not service to an individual or a political administration, but service to Kenya, to her Constitution, and to every Kenyan who calls this country home.”
