Inspector General of Police Japheth Koome has proposed that suspects should be arraigned in court in a manner that doesn’t conceal their faces and identities.
According to him, faces of such individuals should be seen so that they can be ashamed.
“It has gotten to a point that we need to think about these face masks and sunglasses that we are allowing, suspects to wear in court, we need to see their faces in court,” he said.
“We must see them when they appear in court, at least that small punishment of being seen by everybody, they must face some shame,” he added.
Koome was speaking in Mombasa launch of the Drug Coast Region Conference on Illicit Alcohol and Narcotic Drugs Abuse.
He cited the recent case of four police officers who were suspected of selling illicit brew in Kirinyaga county that claimed the lives of 17 people.
Koome expressed displeasure in the manner which they covered themselves to conceal their faces. He said that their faces should have been seen in public as a way of punishing them for their actions.
At the same time, he ordered police in Mombasa County to arrest drug barons in four days.
“I am here on duty for about four days, we must get a baron within those four days, we have no option. What we are saying those drug barons must be arrested and thrown in Land cruisers, no Subaru anymore,” he said.
