Kenya: Brute Force Negates Anti-COVID-19 Effort

[Nation] The government's biggest challenge is execution of its policies. What is designed to achieve a noble goal is blighted by excessive administrative force -- as happened in Nairobi on Monday evening. When President Uhuru Kenyatta announced partial lockdown of the major towns that have become hubs of coronavirus infections, police officers and the provincial administrators jumped in with force. Roadblocks were quickly erected at the city gates. Citizens were stopped, harassed and denied passage to their homes,