Things went south the day Kenya 'accepted' the MPigs salary increase in the previous Government. Now everyone wants to earn 500k. Maybe the way to correct this is to take the MPigs(including senators and governors) back to sub 100k.

How much does it cost to stop a bullet using your head/chest/....?

I haven't been watching TV. But it's not lost on me that this is a PR stunt.

Otherwise, let me ask you @ecstasy, security is top priority for the government, right?

Then it follows that the government must put in place systems that secure what is secured. The force must be structured.

And it's structure is determined by the cause of insecurity. And how does insecurity arise in our country? By extolling the spirit of individualism, and having an uneven distribution of power and wealth; the forces of insecurity are great in number, generally poor, and relatively uneducated. Envy, sexual repression, 'scarcity of money, and resources' to give leverage to the individual with knowledge and power, will only demand a force that is austere, and anger must be high.

Now in the days of 'police reform' we must remember that reforms mean systemic shifts. And if we want a high quality security system, then the forces of insecurity must be transformed to other forms of energy that conduce mutualism.

Then everyone will be able to live well. But as for now, police are living at the battle front where conditions are harsh.

Someone is faulting the piece. I agree with the part on updates on the police sector reforms. It would have been fair to update on improvements to the same as these are part of ongoing GoK measures to try alleviate the issues being discussed.

"SERVE AND SUFFER"

It is very unfortunate that viewers were all glued to watch "SERVE and SUFFER" on NTV an investigative feature that was aired by KissTV sometimes last year.

The clip was funded by a certain NGO and it is a re-run.

Dennis Okari did a shoddy research as he could have told the viewers about the increase of resultant allowances, housing, 1200 new vehicles,medical insurance cover, salary increment etc.

Some of officers who were shown on the clip they no longer work in those stations. Some have been transferred, promoted etc.

He didn't even tell us that on late evening of 4 November 2013, the house of human rights defender on the clip Mr. Philip Ochieng Onguje who was the founder and co-ordinator of Usalama Reforms Forum, caught fire under unclear circumstances, leading to his death and the hospitalisation of his wife while his three children escaped the fire unhurt.

He could have edited the clip to read " late Philip Ochieng" who used to work with a human rights organisation that works on security issues and campaigns for substantial police reforms in Kenya.

I question the motive of this "Serve And Suffer" investigative feature just when IG Kimaiyo & the government are working towards police reforms!

JOURNALISM......
Nation Media Group has a problem with EDITORIAL"