Kenya Could Become The Haiti of Africa Very Soon If People Keep Playing Around With Violence

Three suspects were found dead in a police cell in Nyandarua after a mob attacked and torched the station.

Videos seen circulating online show the police station engulfed in flames as locals watched and cheered from a distance, with some heard singing victory songs.

According to media reports Ndunyu Njeru Police Station in Kinangop, Nyandarua County, was set on fire on the evening of Thursday, June 26, 2025, by angry residents after a man was shot dead by a police officer.

The reports indicates, the man, a boda boda rider, was part of the locals who were demonstrating against cattle theft.

Reports further indicate that three persons of interest suspected to have been behind the cattle theft had been held at the police station were burnt to death.

The three suspects were found dead in the police cell after the mob attacked and torched a police station.

According to police, the bodies were found after the fire had subsided, while one suspect was rescued and rushed to the hospital in a serious condition.

According to police, about 400 people stormed the station at about 8 pm, demanding to be given four suspects who had been arrested for stock theft within Ndunyu Njeru area. The mob wanted to subject the four to mob lynching. The officers resisted and repulsed the group, prompting chaos.

Also burnt were the area chief’s office hosted within the building, a police land cruiser, a salon car belonging to the suspects, a police house that accommodates offices including that of the Officer Commanding the Station and the crime office.

Now here is the big problem. If someone met an ordinary Kenyan like me and asked them after showing those frightening pictures if that is their country called Kenya they would hesitate to answer that because the main thing in their minds would be to ask what happened to our country.

If someone asked the presidential candidate Rigathi Gachagua about those pictures he would answer very quickly by saying those are President Ruto’ goons and he would hold a media interview immediately and condemn Ruto a thousand times for sending goons, while these were actually residents of Nyandarua burning the police station and killing three people from the same area.

If someone asked a government CS about those burning down a police station they would automatically say that it is Gachagua now burning police stations in his backyard because in his mind police stations and police officers in Kenya are agents for President William Ruto and deserve to be punished and the police stations burnt to the ground even if it means killing other Kenyans inside the police station.

Former deputy Rigathi Gachagua has cautioned President William Ruto against forcing the Mt Kenya electorate to rally behind him. So they are fighting and the outcome of that has been horrific as Kenyans can see now.

Here is William Ruto and Rigathi Gachagua fighting for food or maybe they are just eating you alive.

Why would this narrative be the common theme in Kenya today. It is simply because in our country right now we have very two big viscous dogs barking very loudly at each other or two hyenas fighting for food instead of sharing it.

If the hyenas turn towards you as their problem then you need to grab a very big rungu to smack them in the head before they take you out.

Simply put the hyenas are fighting about who gets more food and the life of ordinary Kenyans means nothing to them at all. Those are the seeds of political gangsterism taking root in the country and it is growing very first. And by the time we realize what we are dealing with as a country we will be in Haiti and will have to recall all those Kenyan police officers trying to save Haiti to come back and save their own country.

The serious problem we have as a country is that some of us are beginning to line up behind these two hyenas and and the result is that Kenya is descending into complete anarchy while the politicians yell at each other.

The Gen Z demos have been very well organized and peaceful until the politicians jumped in there as if they started the movement and they are getting directly involved and possibly paying the goons to destroy property and invade businesses of low income people who are just struggling to survive by owning shops and selling stuff to Kenyans.

Today Rigathi Gachagua speaks as if he is the leader of the Gen Z movement. Who invited an old geezer like him there. Actually it is because the so called United Opposition has zero agenda for Kenyans to speak of, so why not hang on to Gen Z actions and look busy.

Yesterday Kalonzo Musyoka launched some imaginary outfit called People’s Restorative Commission for Justice. In fact the United Opposition do nothings are setting up a reporting centre for people to meet them if they face violence from the police.

The tragedy of it all for Kenyans is that Kalonzo was announcing his Human Rights Commission while standing next to their new toy Fred Matiang’i who at the same time just confessed to Kenyans about the crimes he committed as Interior CS which included killing children and those protesting the Uhuru Kenyatta stolen election in 2017. Matiang’i said he is ready for a public inquest to address what he did and also bring others who have done the same things including those killing Kenyans today.

Will Kalonzo Musyoka call in Fred Matiang’i as his first person to be held to account for human rights abuses in their new commission.

Will the commission then sermon Rigathi Gachagua as the person to explain the massive abuses and killings he did starting July 7, 2023 when he was Ruto’s DP who claimed he had to wake at at 5 A.M to go kill the demonstrators. Let them start there if they are serious about human rights abuses in the country.

“We will soon let Kenyans know where they will be reporting cases of police brutality and other forms of oppression so that we can have a detailed account and evidence of what is happening in the country,” said Kalonzo.

Is Kalonzo trying trying to set up a centre for the recruitment of goons to destroy property and businesses belonging to Kenyans fighting to make a living.

Did Kalonzo and his group of people like Justin Muturi who are going to lead that fake commission even bother to meet with well known leaders of that Gen Z movement like Hanifa Aden and many others before they set up this commission for them. No they did not because they think those are little children who need to be led by them.

The real problem is that leaders in that United Opposition group today have zero ideas on what they intend to offer Kenyans so they can vote for them. So they have decided to hijack the Gen Z movement who are making very specific demands for the William Ruto government namely, stopping the abductions, respect for human rights in the country and justice and compensation to victims of state violence and their families.

What specifically has Kalonzo and his buddy Rigathi Gachagua and all those people crowded in United Opposition offered to Kenyans as their plan for the future of the nation. Absolutely nothing.

I have lived long enough to remember the make or break campaigns and contest between dictator Moi who had owned the Kenya government for 24 years at that time and Mwai Kibaki with Raila Odinga challenging them to take the presidency in 2002.

There were no riots and chaos even though Moi was a very bad guy who had tortured and tried to kill us which why I am in Canada today where I came as a refugee from Tanzania. What happened in the battle to get Moi out of the way was a clear agenda for the opposition which they presented to Kenyans.

That agenda was about changing the Kenyan constitution to give Kenyans a better economy and a country that respects human rights.

In the new constitution which Kibaki and Raila were promoting there were two key pieces which could change the country completely. They wanted to end the imperial presidency in Kenya but more importantly they wanted devolution in Kenya to bring and distribute the nations wealth to all communities in our republic.

They had to explain this devolution idea to Kenyans because people did not understand at first. At the time they were proposing eight counties in Kenya which meant every province at that time will be turned into a county and will get their budget from the national and run development projects for all the people in the country.

Kenyans got to understand what Kibaki and Raila were proposing and they fell in love with it and that is how they kicked Moi and his little puppies out of office.

That is the problem for this opposition group now. They have absolutely nothing to tell Kenyans about their agenda for the country except “Ruto Must Go”. And now they see a group of young Kenyans with an agenda for the country and they are hijacking the movement and pretending with no shame to be the leaders of that movement.

To hell with their nonsense and they will find out sooner than later the Gen Z activists have their agenda and a program to achieve so both Gachaua with Kalonzo and their lazy friends and the opposition should leave them alone so they can fight their battles without the burden of Kalonzo and Gachagua squatting on their backs begging for political relevance.

Now let’s look at what is happening in the country starting with the June 25, 2025 commemoration demonstrations and is in the media right now.

Protesters make daring raids on police stations as officers injured

In daring scenes, protesters attacked police stations during running battles that left more than 80 officers nursing injuries on Wednesday. 

The stations targeted were in Nairobi, Nyandarua, Nyeri, Makueni, Kajiado and Nakuru counties where anti-riot police had a rough time suppressing the demonstrators who destroyed about 20 police vehicles while vandalizing road furniture. The IT room in the court was also reduced to ashes; the servers were brought down, and all the cables serving the digital room.

In Ol’Kalou sub-County, Nyandarua County, the offices of Assistant County Commissioner, education depart and county government enforcement were set on fire that consumed 33 vehicles, 10 motorcycles and a tractor.

Ol Kalou Police Station on fire.

In Ol Kalou, enraged protesters set the local police station ablaze after a young man was reportedly shot dead by police during a peaceful demonstration.

The victim, believed to be in his early twenties, was rushed to J.M. Kariuki Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Eyewitnesses said he was shot in the chest at close range by a police officer.

“We were with him during the peaceful protests when the officer shot him,” said James Macharia, one of the demonstrators. “We took him to the hospital, only to find out he had already died.”

The irate demonstrators marched with a body to Ol’Kalou Police Station where they burnt the exhibit store, destroying a section of the perimeter wall. It is alleged the deceased man was a protestor who jumped into a police Land Cruiser car but slipped falling on the road sustaining serious injuries.

Skirmishes broke out at Villa Police Station in Nairobi that was invaded by about 3,000 protesters who were armed with stones and crude weapons. During the ensuing melee, a 19-year-old boy was shot dead.

The shooting angered the demonstrators who brought down the perimeter wall, burnt two civilian vehicles during the violence that left 10 officers injured.

In Mathira East, Nyeri County, demonstrators stormed the Deputy County Commissioners premises where they shattered window panes of sub-county education office, looted the Administration Police canteen before attempting to torch Karatina Law Courts.

The Kikuyu Law Courts in Kiambu County, and several national and county government office also came under attack as police struggled to contain the demonstrators. The law courts was reduced to ashes with all structures ruined by the inferno including registry, customer care desk, succession and records offices, procurement offices, accounts offices, mediation offices, children’s cells, and all the exhibits.

The perimeter wall was also brought down as well as toilets and security desk. Chief Justice Martha Koome toured the courts yesterday to assess damaged caused. She described the attack as an act of terrorism, and warned against violations of freedoms to picket and demonstrate.
 
“A court is a temple of justice where aggrieved people come to seek justice. We are sad as judiciary and as a nation that even as the Constitution under article 37 allows us to picket and demonstrate, criminals have seized the opportunity to destroy property,” she said.

Wanjiku Ngoci, Law society of Kenya Kiambu representative who accompanied Koome regretted that the damaged caused was irreversible. “It will be very difficult to reconstruct files here. The police men have files but they don’t contain court proceedings. This means pending court matters will take a long to conclude, burdening litigants and advocates,” noted Wanjiku. 

Also unable to gain entrance after being blocked by anti-riot police, the protestors headed to the Nyeri South Deputy County Commissioner’s office where they set ablaze three GK vehicles belonging to Ministry of Education and the administrator.

Civil rights groups and community leaders have since condemned both the shooting and the arson attack, calling for an independent investigation into the incident and urging restraint from both law enforcement and citizens. As investigations continue, the Ndunyu incident underscores the fragile relationship between police and communities, particularly in areas plagued by insecurity and longstanding grievances.

In general what began as peaceful commemorations for victims of the June 25, 2024, Generation Z protests turned violence, leading to clashes between police and youths in several counties.

Of course there were a few places where the commemoration rallies ended with no police stations burned to the ground. But in general it was mayhem everywhere at a great cost to the country and the citizens.

Probe on after fire guts police houses in Nyandarua

Debris from houses that caught fire at the Gichungo police post

The fire is reported to have started at 1.00 am burning several items among them bicycles and motorbikes that had been impounded by police.

No one was injured during the incident, which according to a local elder Githinji Mwaniki has left the area in a security risk. He called for quick intervention to help build new houses since the police post serves a big area. The post was constructed through community mobilization following increased cases of theft around Gichungo and Kariamu areas

Enraged Residents Set Mbururu Police Post Ablaze

An angry mob   on Thursday set Mbururu Police post office block on fire over what they claimed to be regular harassment from officers based at the station. They alleged that the officers have been arresting and assaulting them at the police post without reason and later ask for money before they are released.

And what happened to businesses in Kenya is quite terrible as many people lost everything in their shops which then burnt to ashes.

Residents walk past a shopping center that was vandalized and torched during deadly protests marking one year since the storming of Parliamenent in June 25, 2024

Business Owners Count Losses After Destruction, Looting During June 25 Protests

Business owners in the Nairobi Central District woke up to massive losses on their premises Thursday following massive destruction and looting during Wednesday’s demonstrations.

Apart from Nairobi, destruction of property and looting were reported in Thika, Nyeri, Ol kalou, Ongata Rongai, Othaya, Kikuyu and Karatina.

Massive Blaze Hits Nairobi CBD as Fire Engulfs Nairobi Mall

Now on specific demands from the government lets start with the most obvious.

Can President William Ruto stop killing Kenyans who are holding legal demonstrations right away. If he hasn’t noticed every time he kills Kenyans in the streets things just get more complicated for him and he gets lost trying to get his way back. The demonstrations on June 25, 2025 was to commemorate the young people his police killed or injured on June 25, 2025.

By killing 19 people and injuring 400 Kenyans as has been reported by Amnesty International Ruto is asking Kenyans to have even a bigger commemoration on June 25, 2026. How does that help Ruto’s government and his intention to be elected again in 2027.

We know William Ruto will do the same thing and kill more Kenyans at that time and action moves to June 25, 2027 just before the general elections. Does Ruto think Kenyans are so dump that they will just vote him in office after killing so many people starting in 2023 with his then crazy DP, Rigathi Gachagua.

Mr. President provide Kenyans with avenue to achieve justice in their country which they love greatly. That can be done by offering mechanisms for the victims, survivors and families of your violence against them. Those re the things the Gen Z movement have stated to you very clearly and they are calling for compensation for victims and families who are in a lot of pain as we speak.

Kenyans including perpetrators of of human rights abuses like Fred Matiangi and Rigathi Gachagua are calling on you to set and independent Public Inquest to look into cases of human rights abuse in Kenya. Why are you afraid to do that or is it because you will be found as one of the biggest abusers of human rights in our country.

Today your good friend and a a compatriot of our country Raila Odinga blasted one of your favourite CS Mr. Kipchumba Murkomen for threating Kenyans with instant death when he asked Kenyan police officers ” to “Shoot To Kill” other Kenyans and the citizens don’t even know what they have done to be killed just like that

Shame on You! Raila castigates Murkomen over ‘shoot-to-kill’ directive

ODM leader Raila Odinga has condemned Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen over remarks perceived to support the use of lethal force against protesters during the June 25 demonstrations in Nairobi.

Speaking on Sunday at ACK St Peter’s Parish in Bondo, Siaya county, the former Prime Minister said while acts of violence and destruction witnessed during the protests should be condemned, police must not resort to unconstitutional killings.

“We have witnessed a lot of bloodshed recently. Children who went out to demonstrate, some of them died – some of them shot by the police,” Raila said.

He condemned those who destroyed property, terming them criminals, but insisted that the police had no legal grounds to shoot to kill.

“The police should never ever shoot to kill. Police have no licence to kill human beings. If somebody has committed a crime, arrest that person and take them before a court of law,” he said.

Raila took issue with statements attributed to CS Murkomen suggesting that police had the right to use lethal force to defend public infrastructure.

“So anybody giving instructions to a police officer that if anybody comes close to a police station, shoot them, it’s a shame. Shame on you,” Raila said.

“We should not encourage the taking away of life in a way which is not constitutional.”

His remarks come in the wake of a damning report by the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR), which revealed that at least 19 people lost their lives during the protests, 531 were injured, and 15 remain forcibly disappeared.

Raila, however, maintained that “state agencies must be held accountable for the excessive force witnessed during the Gen Z-led demonstrations, even as he condoled with families who lost loved ones. “

“We condole with those people who have lost their loved ones, but at the same time we condemn the criminals who deliberately went to destroy people’s properties,” he said.

Many Kenyans would be very happy if Raila Odinga holds a direct conversation with the president in a government in which he also works. The first thing for you to do Mr. President is to fire your beloved CS Kipchumba Markomen immediately and don’t transfer him to any new docket.

Murkoman claims he is a lawyer and maybe it is time for him to go get a job or just open his office as a practicing lawyer not a practicing instigator to have Kenyans killed by the police for no reason at all because the law is clear that the police should arrest people breaking the law and not just shoot them to death as if it some kind of a game.

You have a weak opposition against you Mr. President but don’t take it too far or you are going to regret your actions with tears in your eyes come General elections in 2027.

Now let’s turn to the comparison about of how Kenya is heading to the mess and gangster activities in Haiti. There are many Kenyans who may think that Haiti has been always like that with gangsters running and ruining the country led by Mr. Barbecue as is happening now.

Nothing could be farther from the truth about Haiti which was the first country in the world to be ruled by Black People when they fought for and gained independence in 1801 which is 95 years before the colonialists came to Kenya to take our country in 1896.

Black Haitians were all slaves owned by French people for a long time and then the Black slaves in Haiti decided they had endured enough of the slavery and launched a guerilla armed fight against French slave owners.

That Black slave rebellion was led by a former black slave who became a guerrilla leader, Toussaint Louverture who conquered Haiti from the French Slave owners and abolished slavery and claimed himself as the Governor General of an autonomous government in Haiti.

The French forces led by Napoleon’s brother in law, Charles Leclerc, tried to overthrow the Governor General Toussaint Louverture and was beaten in 1802.

In 1804 Haiti became independent led by a former slave, Jean Jacques Dessalines and that was the first free African state in the Western world and the first time slaves beat the hell out of their former masters and established their own country under the leadership of Jean-Jacques Dessalines.

Jean-Jacques Dessalines

Dessalines worked on the Duclos sugar plantation in Cormier for most of his enslaved life and was subjected to excessive violence and brutal discipline by his notoriously cruel white master. He bore the deep scars of his enslavement until his death. The majority of the slave population in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) were African-born.

The night of 14 August 1791, the new maroon leader, Vodou Priest Dutty Boukman, gave the signal of the start of the revolt.

That is the amazing history of how slaves in Haiti liberated themselves to establish their own country, the first one ever by African slaves in the Western world.

Fifty years from that time, Haiti had to do with the father and son who were complete thugs Pap Doc and Baby Doc ruining the country to its knees until the Lavalas revolution led by Jean Bertrand Aristide brought democracy to Haiti in 1991, which was 190 years since Haiti slaves defeated French Colonialists in 1801.

In between, Haiti had to deal with the Duvalier thugs in government. Papa Doc was so hideous that he actually made up the Lord’s prayer for himself that kids had to sing in school before classes and Haitians had to recite that every day.

“Our Doc, who art in the National Palace for life, Hallowed be Thy name by present and future generations. Thy will be done at Port‐au‐Prince and in the provinces. Give us this day our new Haiti and never forgive the trespasses of the anti-patriots who spit every day on our country; let them succumb to temptation, and under the weight of their venom, deliver them not from any evil . . .”

The Duvalier dictatorships went on until Aristide took them out with a mass revolution in 1991.

The point we have to make is that Haiti is one of the countries in the world with an incredible history as a people who have gone through a lot of turmoil and changes and still going on. So Kenyans are better off not looking at Haiti as just some country controlled by gangsters at the moment and that is all. The country is a whole lot more than that.

We can also go back to what has been declared by historians as the ‘The Greatest Heist In History’: in which independent Haiti was forced to pay reparations for freed slaves.

The conservative estimate estimate is that France cost Haiti as much as $115 billion. If Haiti had not been forced to pay the people who had enslaved its citizens, The Times reported, its per capita income could have be almost six times as large.

Jean-Pierre Boyer, Haitian Revolutionary Leader and President

Jean-Pierre to President of Haiti who was forced to sign the Heist of the century of 150 million francs to be paid by Haiti to France.

In recent years after an elected president Moïse’s was assassinated Haiti descended into gangsters controlling Haiti and doing everything they want with numerous groups of gangsters also fighting and killing each other.

Today there is no government in Haiti as various factions claim power in the country and the gangsters are in charge of everything including the markets and shops as well as the international airport in Port-au-Prince the capital city of Haiti built in the 18th century after Haiti was liberated from France.

Over the next century, Haiti paid French slaveholders and their descendants the equivalent of between $20 and $30 billion in today’s dollars. It took Haiti 122 years to pay it off. It means Haiti the poorest country in the world paid billions of dollars to France from 1825 and finished the payment in 1947. Talk about the sheer cruelty of so called democratic countries in the Western world.

Today while the gangs are running the country Haiti depends on Haitian expatriates sending over $3 billion in remittances back home which is almost one-third of the island nation’s entire GDP.

So Haiti has a very rich and complicated history just like Kenya has and look where they are and if we don’t end the gangsterism emerging in the country today we may soon have our own Mr. Barbecue and allot of gangs in the country and people who can will just run out of the country. That a sad situation we must avoid by all means and that starts right now with the complicated situation in the country where political leaders scream and abuse each other as if they are ready to go to battle each other with gangs and guns.

One thing in Kenya which is scary is that people talk about goons when they burn houses but in reality we have goons everywhere in the country. We have big political goons in parliament. We have even bigger political goons in the United Opposition. Even our media is full of goons.

There is no newspaper in Kenya anymore. Look at the Standard paper for example where there is no reporting of news because the whole paper is full of opinion pieces from the same writers everyday and they are obsessed with fighting the government. They have become the new “Ruto Must Go” charlatans and they are asked everyday by their bosses to look and write about something that fits that agenda. It is boring but that is what they have to do.

” I tend to think of history as the ongoing crystallization of different of sorts of variables. Some of the variables are known, and some are unknown.”

Jean Bertrand Aristide

Below is a story we published on September 28, 2023 about Haiti and I have put some of that stuff in this new piece.

All Kenyans Will Stand With Our Police in Haiti, God Bless Them. But, What Do We Know About the Carribean Nation?

Adongo Ogony is a Kenyan Human Rights Activist and a Writer who lives in Toronto, Canada