Kenya Police Incompetency

The recent confessions of a self-styled kidnapper and killer revealed more than his love for blood.
The self-confessed ‘cannibal’, Philip Onyancha, was happy to reveal the number of human beings he sucked their blood and places he dumped their lifeless bodies. Hot on his heels were police officers who trailed him as he led them to various hide-outs he had left his victims.
As the heavily secured and hand-cuffed man was hosted for press conferences, police listened keenly as he disclosed how he lured innocent Kenyans to quench his “urge of blood”. They were overtly happy after arresting a guy who had escaped them for three years.

What remained a secret all along and which no one dared let out on that day, not even the police inspector, was how the man had avoided police dragnets (if at all they were) for that long. If his ‘bloody’ affairs began in 2007 and took police three years to arrest him, then police should give more reasons why they gave the criminal much freedom-to undertake his blood sucking activity without fear- other than celebrate.

Among the big questions begging answers is why Kenyan police are always reactive rather than proactive. At no point have these security men come up with successful strategies to stop such criminalities. They always wait for crimes then they commence endless investigations which are often useless in the courts of law as the accused are normally set free for lack of evidence to jail them.
Their ‘reactivity’ was clear when in an apparent effort to excite the media, and hoodwink Kenyans, they invited them to follow the serial killer, who had successfully murdered innocent citizens, to his abattoir in Naivasha. The move was undeniably a lame effort meant to deceive Kenyans that they (police) were doing their best to protect them. But in doing this they exposed their inability to stop the likes of Onyancha from committing such heinous crimes. It is good as painful to wait for a criminal to wrong then arrest. Doing that is incompetency of the rankest order.
When police fail to protect 17 and more Kenyans from a marauding killer then its better such an entity be disbanded. They cannot keep getting monthly salaries when they are not performing their duties.
It is not plausible to totally blame police for failing to arrest this practice. They deserve praise for succeeding in tracking kidnappers using mobile phones and rescuing abductees.
Nonetheless it must accept blame for failing to stop its wanton spread. They now have to bite the bullet in tracking the ‘rich’ criminals and bring this ‘business’ to an immediate halt.

Kidnapping is a booming profitable business and will continue to grow as along as police remain reactive.