2013, The Year Of Impersonator Cops. Kenya Police Afrocinema Continues..

2013, The Year Of Impersonator Cops. Kenya Police Afrocinema Continues....

As levels of insecurity in country continue to heighten up as we gear up towards the much anticipated 2013 general election, in walks the imposter police officers who have grazed the news bulletins.
James Waiganjo has been in the police force for half a decade without being detected as a fake cop, a name that the media has gracefully nicknamed him without charge.
In all the high-end drama that surrounds the saga, one might think they are watching a B rated western movie with inexperienced actors who will never get a glimpse of the Oscars.

There’s an adage that says, Lie to me but don’t insult my intelligence. What the police force is doing is lying to Kenyans in broad daylight and expecting them to take their nifty, dirty lies as gospel truth.
They fail to tell us how Waiganjo could go undetected as a fake cop who would get his monthly remuneration, attend high security meetings and fire fellow police cops at will.
The madness that has enveloped the police force is all happening when we are at war with terrorism, cattle rustling and insecurity in general. The image of a blown over public service vehicle in Eastleigh is still ebbed at the back of our minds and we have had enough of cattle rustling news bulletins grazing our not so flat screen television sets.
If a form three student from Machakos can manage to impersonate an OCPD and manage to con some Members of Parliament off their easy earned money- all pun intended- for whatever reasons that the boy may have, then he might have noticed the loopholes that plague the police force.
We are done laughing about the impersonators and now we are more than afraid that the people we come across as police officers may not have gone to Kiganjo for training, at all.
The newly appointed Inspector General will not only have a hard time convincing Kenyans that his boys are trustworthy, but also prove to us that they can handle the pressure that comes with electioneering in Kenya as has been witnessed in the past.