Deputy President William Ruto on Tuesday, August 18 came out strongly to condemn police brutality that has been going on for the longest time now especially after it reached the doors of the Senate.
Ruto was reacting to the recent arrest of three Senators, Cleophas Malala (Kakamega), Christopher Lang’at (Bomet), and Steve Lelegwe (Samburu).
“The abuse of police and criminal justice to bully citizens, threaten and intimidate leaders and now blackmail senate is wrong. Very wrong. It’s not the reason millions woke up early to vote for us,” noted Ruto on Twitter.
However, in an interview with CNN back in October 2017, Ruto was asked about the opposition accusing the police of being heavy-handed on citizens.
“It is unfortunate that every other time a Kenyan dies as a result of violence… and we regret any death that has happened, about six people have lost their lives, every death that happened in Kenya is investigated both by the police and an oversight authority.” replied Ruto to the question in part.
“However much of this violence is orchestrated, it is sponsored, in fact in 9% of our country, Kenyans did not vote”.
