Kisumu Governor-Elect Nyong’o tells police to do their civil duties well.

Kisumu Governor-Elect Prof. Anyang Nyong'o{2nd R} consoles one of the victims of the post election violence who has been admitted at a health facility in Kisumu. He has urged the Police to perform their civil duties of protecting lives and properties well-Photo By Dickson Odhiambo.

By Dickson Odhiambo.

August 15, 2017.

Kisumu Governor-Elect Nyong’o tells police to do their civil duties well.

Kisumu County Governor-Elect Prof. Peter Anyang’ Nyongo has urged the Police to do their civil duties well without harassing and interfering with the lives and property of the public.

Prof. Nyong’o says one of the civil duties of the police officers under the National Police Service Act is to ensure that they protect lives and property of the people of this country.

Speaking at Jomo Kenyatta Sports Ground on Monday after visiting various homes to console the victims of what is termed as police brutality during last weekend; Nyong’o says is it quite absurd that some anti-Riot Police officers went right into people’s homes within the villages and roughed them up while injuring some.

Nyong’o urges the Kisumu County Commissioner Mr.Maalim Mohammed and both the County regular and Administration Police Commanders in Kisumu to ensure that the police carry out this their civil duties well.

“I want to urge the Kisumu County Mr.Maalim Mohammed and both the County regular and Administration Police Commanders in Kisumu to ensure that the police carry out this their civil duties which is to protect lives and property and not to steal and destroy property while removing lives from people,” Nyongo says.

Nyong’o claims that some Anti-Riot Police went to a village within Kisumu East Constituency where they ransacked the homes among them that of an 80-year-old elderly woman and destroyed her property including the tea she was preparing outside her house, adding that such like an incident is very unfortunate and should not be tolerated at all costs.

Nyong’o at the same time urges the youth not to engage themselves in any act of lawlessness when they are protesting against the outcome of the just concluded Presidential Election Results where IEBC declared Jubilee Presidential Candidate Uhuru Kenyatta as the President- Elect.

He also urges the youth not to erect illegal road blocks while peacefully protesting to demand money from the public, adding that they should not confront the Anti-riot Police as well during the peaceful protests.

Meanwhile, the office of the Kisumu County Governor-Elect Prof. Peter Anyang Nyong’o and the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights have set up a temporary Disaster and Management Information Center at Jomo Kenyatta Sports Ground in Kisumu  as well as emergency numbers to call and report attacks and missing persons.

Nyong’o says the center has been put up there after he met the Kisumu County Intelligence and Security team together with religious leaders on Sunday.

He says anybody with information or one who needs emergency should visit the center.

Nyong’o has given these numbers 0700266255, 0700266922, 0786266255 which the public can use to call for any emergency services.

Nyongo who was accompanied by members of the clergy within the county earlier visited a six-month old baby Samantha Pendo who is admitted at Intensive Care Unit of Aga Khan Hospital in Kisumu.

It is alleged that the baby was clobbered by the Anti-riot police who allegedly broke into their house at Nyalenda last weekend.

The ant-riot police who have been quelling protests after the polls held last week on Tuesday have been accused of using excessive force where they have further been accused of using live bullets to shoot the protestors in Kisumu,Kibra, Mathare and Ngomono areas.

Police have since denied the claims of the use of live bullets to quell protests in those areas.

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