Lawyer Willis Otieno warns police against following Murkomen’s shoot-to-kill orders
Lawyer Willis Otieno has warned Kenyan police officers against following Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen’s shoot-to-kill orders.
Taking to his official X account in the wee hours of Friday, June 27, 2025, Otieno termed Murkomen’s directive as illegal.
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He went ahead to warn that should any police officer decide to follow the orders, he or she would stand alone in the dock.
“Dear Police Officers, If you choose to follow illegal orders from @kipmurkomen or any politician drunk on power, know this: you will stand alone in the dock. When the dust settles – and it always does – the cameras will have your face, not his,” he stated.
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Otieno further warned that leaders and politicians who are misusing the police will eventually abandon them, and the uniform will not protect them from accountability.
He also urged the officers to choose the constitution and not chaos.
“The same people using you today will abandon you tomorrow. No uniform protects you from accountability. No title will shield you from justice. The long arm of the law may be slow, but it never forgets. Choose the Constitution, not chaos,” he wrote on X.
Murkomen’s orders
The lawyer’s remarks come just hours after Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen issued shoot-to-kill orders on anyone trying to storm a police station.
Speaking on Thursday, June 26, 2025, when he toured some of the police stations in Kiambu County 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.”
