They stormed the city centre armed with knives and clubs.

The goons terrorised protesters and other Kenyans going about their business as police officers egged them on, once again exposing the depths President William Ruto's administration will sink to stifle dissent.

The crooks, brought in on motorbikes, rained terror on innocent people, robbing them and striking them with clubs as the police watched.

The thugs vandalised shops, too, all in full glare of law enforcement agents, who escorted them in police vehicles, a brazen show of impunity by a police service under intense scrutiny over its brutality.