Impunity and the crimes of the Kenyan police have been topics for years and return whenever there are problems of law and order, elections, tribal feuds, protests and intemperance of all kinds. But it has also been snaking for years in the underworld of the underworld, in the less noble districts of Nairobi and in the rural areas where interests are linked to land baronies or families well rooted in the regional fabric.
In short, a national cancer that has always been difficult to eradicate, because it is the child of the presidential, almost dictatorial logic that the parliamentary republic inherited from the regime of the country's second unelected leader, Daniel Arap Moi.
Now William Ruto, the first president not tied to precise political hierarchies, although in the system since the late 1990s. has decided to dismantle an entire police team, the Special Service Unit of the DCI (the Kenyan CIA), and has done so overnight, giving impeccable explanations that have nonetheless left the public speechless.
'This unit is responsible for many murders,' said Ruto without mincing words, 'including the many dead bodies found in Lake Yala, it was time to disband this criminal unit. The story of the Yala River has been an ugly affair that has not found any perpetrators for five years. Dozens of bodies have been found periodically by locals in the Nandi hills and the Lake Victoria region, locked in jute sacks and with obvious signs of torture.
Investigations so far have led nowhere. 
'They had five years, which they used to bankrupt the country, where insecurity had reached unimaginable levels, with the bodies found murdered in the Yala River,' said Ruto. 'The police had moved away from the role of protecting Kenyans to killing them. That is why I gave orders to disband the police SSU because it was still killing Kenyans'.
The SSU had been created in 1999 to replace the Special Crime Prevention Unit.
"Its creation was due to the increase in unusual and peculiar crimes within the Republic of Kenya. It performs its duties under the immediate supervision of the Director of Operations at DCI Headquarters and on several occasions assists in areas where crime is perceived to be on the rise within the country," reads the description on the DCI website.
This disbandment could also be a signal for the entire police force, which has already started to be revolutionised at the top.
While human rights activists are consequently calling for intensified investigations into thousands of unsolved cases, experts now fear discontent in the other special corps that could cause problems for the country's security more generally.
However, the Ruto administration represents an opportunity to change, for the better, this country and as such its activities will be to be followed with interest and a critical spirit to better understand Kenya's near future.