Kenya Probes Police Failure To Protect Property

Kenya’s Independent Police Oversight Authority, IPOA says it is investigating two incidents on Monday where police failed to protect private property in the capital Nairobi.

Report says it is also looking into the shooting allegedly by the police that caused death and injuries in the western city of Kisumu.

Meanwhile, crowds invaded the farm owned by former President Uhuru Kenyatta’s family on the outskirts of the city, stealing sheep and felling trees before setting the farm on fire.

There were no police in sight as the invasion went on during the day, apparently in retaliation for the second of opposition protests.

A gas cylinder factory linked to opposition leader Raila Odinga was also vandalised.

IPOA has called on the police “to abide by the law in exercising their constitutional function of protection of life and property in line with the police act.”

BBC/Christopher Ojilere