Kabando wa Kabando has raised deep concern over the rising cases of killings in Kenya and the way society responds to them. He described the situation as shameful, noting that whenever someone is murdered in cold blood, instead of the country uniting in anger and demanding justice, attention is quickly shifted to the personal lives or supposed mistakes of the victims.
This, he said, is a very troubling pattern that seeks to downplay the crime and justify the killings. Kabando argued that such an approach is used to silence people, cover up the truth, and deny justice to families that have lost their loved ones.
He emphasized that no extrajudicial killing can ever be acceptable, and violence against innocent people must never be normalized. According to him, if someone is suspected of wrongdoing, the law provides the right process. The police are expected to arrest the suspect, take them to court, and let the judge decide their guilt or innocence.
He warned that replacing due process with killings is a dangerous path that puts the entire nation at risk.
Kabando reminded Kenyans that this problem is not new. Over the years, many people have been killed in unclear circumstances.
Lawyers who defended the rights of citizens, activists who fought for justice, politicians, and even ordinary Kenyans have all lost their lives through extrajudicial killings. In many of these cases, no one has been held accountable, leaving families in pain and without closure. He said this silence and lack of justice only destroys hope among citizens and weakens public trust in the country’s leaders and institutions.He went on to warn that if this culture of killing continues, every Kenyan will eventually be in danger.
People will fear speaking the truth or questioning those in power because they worry about becoming the next target. Such fear, he explained, takes away freedom and slowly destroys society. In his view, when killings go unpunished and people are intimidated into silence, democracy cannot survive, and dictatorship begins to take root.
Kabando stressed that the government has a duty to protect the lives of all citizens. Allowing security agencies or unknown groups to carry out killings outside the law is equal to betraying that duty and undermining the foundations of democracy. He insisted that Kenyans must refuse to accept the lies that are spread about victims in an attempt to justify their deaths.
Justice, he said, must be based on fairness, the respect for human life, and the rule of law.In his final remarks, Kabando said Kenya cannot continue to claim it is a democratic country while its citizens die without justice and killers walk free.
He called for unity among Kenyans to demand accountability, resist the normalization of violence, and defend the basic right to life as the foundation of freedom and democracy.
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