Politics
Naivasha killings planned in State House, says report
Posted Tuesday, October 21 2008 at 20:48
“I tried to organise the people somehow and we tried to call others. I told them to call their friends to know if they were all safe. So we started making calls and we found people who were trapped in their houses.
“They couldn’t come to the police station or go to the GK Prison. I started coordinating with the police on how to go and evacuate those people who were trapped and sometimes it was just difficult because the police vehicles were not enough. It was just chaotic. Sometimes we were getting very desperate.”
Among the causes of police failure to adequately respond to the violence was the breach in the chain of command within the force.
The Commission was provided with abundant examples of junior officers refusing to take orders from their superiors and placing ethnic loyalty before professional ethical conduct.
The community leader involved in the police operations at the time testified as follows:
“Q: Did you get the sense the police who were doing the best they could but were overwhelmed or was there incompetence amongst the police officers or other security agencies?
Terminally ill lady
Witness: On the first day, that was on 27th, I thought that the police were being overwhelmed. But during that week when we stayed at the police station camp, because the last person we evacuated was on Thursday and I could tell that there was some defiance.
“The junior officers, particularly from the Kikuyu tribe, were not ready to take instructions from their superiors; and I can say, for example, there is a time we went to evacuate a terminally ill lady who was trapped inside an estate and getting the officers to come, they were just defiant, they were just running and saying that it is the deputy OCPD, because it was the deputy OCPD, Grace Kakai, who was giving them those instructions. They were saying that she is just being bossy.”
We were presented with ample evidence suggesting that the same ethnic fault line that divided the community in Naivasha also affected security agencies.
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Submitted by kenmare69Posted October 25, 2008 03:31 AM
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Submitted by Fashangabo
I am not supprised if it is true about the planning of the violence.
Posted October 24, 2008 05:50 PM -
Submitted by Gilmer
alittle bit of inteligence is necessary for us Kenyans.Here we go again fighting for the guys who planned this violence,they are driving high powered cars..while majority of us struggles everyday. when are we gonna snap out of this,i dont care where violence was planned from,just take this bastards to jail.None of the politicians is innocent....none
Posted October 24, 2008 03:38 PM -
Submitted by SJ502
bituruchege/Gathoni: I agree with you. It either State House and/or Naivasha now. It's the most politcally correct thing to talk about here.
Posted October 24, 2008 03:07 PM -
Submitted by bituruchege
I have resisted commenting on this but its abit annoying that focus is only on "Naivasha killing". No one dares talk of the Eldoret massacares where innocent people were burnt alive in a church, nor do we talk of peoples lifetime savings reduced to ashes in Kisumu. Were members of this community expected to sit and watch as they were gradually being exterminited? Stoke stoking those fires and let Kenya heal. Lets stop double standards, who started this violence?
Posted October 24, 2008 01:19 PM
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What’s the bone of contention here - the validity of testimonies given before the Waki Commission, the integrity of the commission, or both? It seems to me ludicrous and unbelievable that many people are now sounding off against this report and yet no substantial prior opposition, if any, was raised on account of the commissions integrity to handle the job. I tend to hear, “Oh, it must be wrong because it’s pointing a finger at my guy." Let’s make sure our sense of justice is not warped.