Ealier this week, a post by Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki showing a police officer doing a march to an opposite direction has created a buzz online with kenyans trying to debunk the picture.
Most kenyans online have even expressed their disappointments in the action with others citing that the officers are incompetence and not highly trained or properly drilled on such parades and that shows confusion.
However, more pictures have been released since showing some Police Officers marching to opposite direction during a parade, something that some section of kenyans have said its normal.
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Security persons who understand the police parade have come out to explain why one officer is seen to march to opposite direction while the rest proceed to the other direction.
According to a Retired police officer, there was nothing unusual from the march indicating that the act was a show of responsibility and the highest form of professionalism.
“A parade commander who is a non-commissioned officer (NCO) seeks permission to match off the parade with guard on duty remaining. As the team leaves the venue, one officer on duty turns in the opposite direction to head to the office.”
Therefore, according to the officer, the officer who is heading to the opposite direction is always the one on duty and on guard. So heading to the opposite direction means he is going to resume his duty after the parade.
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Since then, more pictures have been released to support the arguments with more kenyans getting to learn the meaning of the actions by the police officers in parades.