FALSE: The Kenyan police are not on a go-slow

 

The claim that the police are on a go-slow is false and misleading.

 

There have been claims on Twitter that the police are on a go-slow.

This comes in the backdrop of the rise in insecurity cases over the past three weeks which have been rampant in urban areas such as Nairobi and surrounding. The crimes range from mugging, robbery with violence, pickpocketing, robbery by using motorbikes and killings. Criminal gangs are now striking in broad daylight, resulting in bodily harm and loss of lives and property. This has raised speculations that the insecurity is a result of a go-slow of the police as a protest to the disbanding of the Special Service Unit and arrest of police officers as further claimed by Kamindo Tonic on Twitter.

Ruben FM looked into the validity of these claims to determine the truth.

 

On 15th November 2022, the Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki convened a security  meeting of the top commanders of the National Police Service across the country to address the concerns. In the security meeting, as broadcasted on Citizen TV, Kindiki clarified that:

 “ There is no go slow, in the police service, the police are a disciplined force. They don’t  strike, they don’t picket, and they don’t go slow…’’

 

This clarification, therefore, ends the speculations that have been going on that the police are on a go slow for various reasons, hence a surge in the crime rate in the city.

 

Therefore, the claim that the police are on a go-slow is false and misleading.

 

This fact check was published by Ruben FM with support from Code for Africa’s PesaCheck and African Fact-Checking Alliance.