In Kenyan riots the police normally dispatches regular and administrative police to disperse rioters. In case the rioters overpower these, the elite GSU squad is then dispatched and I have never heard of a case where the GSU were overpowered because their nature is to flatten everything on sight. That is their job description.
In a shoot-out between police and a gangster in Nairobi's Buruburu estate recently, the regular police spent hours trying to smoke out a lone gun man in vain. When the GSU RECCE squad arrived, the gun man was finished in minutes. That's how the GSU work.
I was therefore not happy when some people were putting pressure on the police to sack an officer who clobbered an elderly woman the other day (watch video here). Why sack someone for doing his job?
These were the GSU and by the time they arrived at the scene, the woman - or anybody in their right senses - should have rushed as far away from the scene as is humanly possible. These people swear during their Passing out Parade to beat up even their mothers if need be. That's what they are trained and employed to do
Otherwise the GSU should be sent to riot scenes with bibles to preach peace, not with rungus.
