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30 January 2015 Last updated at 18:01 GMT
In this week's episode of What's Up Africa, satirist Ikenna Azuike asks, "Whose side are the Kenyan police on?"
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When police in Kenya used tear gas on primary schoolchildren protesting over a land grab of their playground, there was outrage across the country.