What nobody seems to realize is that this unit had overstepped its boundaries with both feet and was now behaving like a criminal gang with state resources. Their activities are murkier than what most people would dare imagine. The unit became so rotten you could hire them to take care of personal 'business'. When security organs hit such levels, a reset is needed and that is just what Ruto has done.
Those talking about Mungiki and terrorists ought to understand that even when alternative means are used to fight criminality, this happens in a structured manner to prevent misuse of such processes. It is naive to imagine that a police officer who makes a criminal disappear is not capable of doing the same to a non-criminal for pay or to some other end. The Kitengela case where the lawyer Willy Kimani and his client were murdered is a good example of what happens when law enforcement officers are allowed to run parallel unofficial processes unchecked; they become more dangerous than the criminals they are meant to fight. Nobody wants to be stuffed in a gunny bag for some small debt they couldn't clear or other such mishaps.
The truth is that for every 'deserving' case of a stubborn criminal brought down using unofficial processes, there will be 99 criminal acts by the same security organ.