Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei has warned that police officers should not follow Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen’s shoot‑to‑kill order against police station invaders.
Speaking during an interview on Wednesday, July 2, 2025, Cherargei cautioned police officers against following any unconstitutional or illegal orders from their superiors, warning that if they unlawfully kill someone, they would face arrest, prosecution, and imprisonment.
“To the police officers, do not follow unconstitutional orders from your seniors. If you kill someone illegally, you will be arrested, prosecuted and jailed alone,” he said.
Cherargei on brutality
He also called on leaders to condemn those attacking police officers, even as they denounce incidents of police brutality.
“I want to urge my colleagues, as they call the police on police brutality, they must also condemn people who are injuring the police. A policewoman was almost killed in town; let us also be fair,” he added.
“I was the chair of the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee. In the last session, we were supposed to table a report on enforced disappearance, police brutality and extrajudicial killings. I agree that as a nation, it is not a civilised society where there is police brutality, the police should be a safe space for every Kenyan.”
Murkomen’s order
Cherargei’s warning comes days after the CS ordered the police to shoot invaders.
Speaking when he toured some of the police stations to assess the aftermath of the Wednesday, June 25, 2025, Gen Z memorial protests, Murkomen told the locals that he had ordered the police officers to shoot anyone who would invade a police station with ill intentions.
“Ile shida inafanya saa zingine polisi wapige wakora risasi ni kwa sababu wanashikwa, wanaenda alafu wanarudi kuchekelea polisi wakisema sasa tulifika wapi, hakuna kwenye tulienda. Na tumeambia polisi, mtu yeyote ambaye atakaribia police station, piga yeye risasi,” Murkomen said.
Loosely translated as: “The problem that sometimes makes the police shoot criminals is that they get arrested, are released, then come back to mock the police, asking, ‘So, where did you take us? Nowhere.’ And we’ve told the police, —Anyone who comes near a police station, shoot them.”
According to Murkomen, the goons targeted armouries and police uniforms at various police stations in the country.
