Interior CS Kithure Kindiki has denied claims that the police engaged in extra judicial executions during the recent anti-government protests.
He said the police acted within the law and accusing them of using excessive force is malicious and false.
“Such claims are intended at distorting public opinion regarding the recent orgy of violence that took place in some parts of the Country,” he said.
He said investigative and Intelligence agencies are analyzing solid evidence in their possession with a view to prosecute the key planners, executers and financiers of large-scale arson, violent robberies and destruction of infrastructure, as well as death and injury of civilians and security personnel.
“During the past week, a large cache of conventional and crude weapons, narcotic drugs and cash were intercepted on their way to fuel the riots that rocked some parts of the Country,” he said.
The CS added that licensed and unlicensed civilian firearms supplied by the masterminds of the recent violence were used to kill or injure civilians and security personnel, and the blame shifted to security officers.
Kindiki said the scale of violence and destruction occasioned by persons masquerading as peaceful protestors exercising their Constitutional rights shock the conscience of mankind.
He added that the National Police Service and other national security organs remain neutral, impartial and professional and shall not be drawn into political, ethnic or sectarian nuances.