Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja is, by and large, the chief custodian of law and order.
Yet since December 2024, the courts have pleaded with him as well as the Directorate of Criminal Investigation boss, Mohammed Amin, to appear in court and explain the whereabouts of three youths believed to have been abducted and or kidnapped.
Kanja and Amin, in their wisdom, have stubbornly decided to ignore the orders in total disregard of the oath of office in which they swear to uphold the law.
In their own police training, as enforcers of the law, orders are sacrosanct – they are obeyed without question.
The office of the Inspector General has had many occupants. Kanja can persuade himself that his office is powerful.
But the constitution clearly shows how institutions and even individuals who imagine they are powerful must behave before the law.
The example he has set must beg the question as to why anyone should obey a police officer’s order anymore.
Kanja and Amin must review their decision because the damage from it too scary to fathom.
HISTORICAL QUOTE
“A good person will feel guilty even
before a dog.”
ANTON CHEKHOV
The Russian author and playwright was born on January
29, 1860.