Our security men are more deadly than coronavirus – Prof. PLO Lumamba

A  prolific orator, lecturer, and a staunch Pan Africanist, Professor Patrick Otieno Lumumba has questioned how Africans train their security forces.

The Vice-Chancellor of Kenya Law School made this statement on the back of the many reported cases of brutalities by security men on civilians as a means of enforcing the lockdown.

“It is not worthy that in many African countries, the brutality of the so-called discipline forces has been manifested, which also calls into question, how do we train our men and women in uniform?
Some have said, cynically, that a lot more people have died in Africa out of police brutality rather than out of coronavirus. Those are worrying statements” he wrote.

He further stated that the countries are not at war and nations ae not in curfew where the security forces require force to ensure order.

When you deploy police officers or the armed forces, they ought to be told that the country is not at war with the citizenry and therefore it does not require them to use force to put down the citizenry.
In My view, those who are in the military and those who are in the police department must behave as if they were boy scouts or girl guides even when they are imposing this lockdown or dusk to dawn curfews.

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