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Stop the grisly killings

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Published on Monday, 04 June 2007 03:54

The lynching of suspects in Nyamira District should raise the authorities’ concern over law, order and safety. In the last three months alone, 30 suspects have been killed. Since Sunday, six people have been lynched in the district.

But the most bizarre incident was where a suspect’s throat was slit and dogs set on him. He was alleged to have been a member of a gang involved in murder, robbery and rape.

The public should desist from taking the law into its own hands and let State agencies charged with that responsibility to do their work. But this call has begun to sound hollow in many parts of the country.

Wananchi largely lynch suspects because law and order agents — the police, courts and the Provincial Administration — frustrate efforts to fight crime. When a crime is committed, people turn to State for help. But before long, suspects are set free. Nyamira DC says it all: Four suspects lynched this week had been charged with violent robbery, but a local court dropped them. For the war against crime to succeed, the police, courts and the people must work together to ensure that justice is done. If this is not done, recently launched Office of the President Rapid Results Initiative will fail miserably.