The newly appointed Inspector General of police David Kimaiyo may have started on a high note with a promise to tame crime and institute reforms in the police service. Our moles tell us the man is yet to be allocated an office! He is still operating from the Kenya National Focal Point on Small Arms offices at Bruce House which has caused confusion within the police service. It seems there is the delicate issue of striking a balance between allocating him an office at Harambee which was previously the office used by the AP Commandant or at Vigilance House which is the headquarters of the regular police. The IG is in charge of both forces and the feeling is that he should have offices in a 'neutral' place!
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Still on the police, Corridors has it that some senior officers are unhappy with the behavior of two commissioners of the National Police Service Commission who “gate crashed” a meeting called on Monday by Inspector General of Police David Kimaiyo. The IG was holding his first meeting with all senior police officers from across the country. Some senior officers have not taken the “gate crashing” lightly as they read interference in their work.
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A few Kenyans in the diaspora have reportedly resolved to stop their remittances back home to protest the decision by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission not to register them as voters and have them participate in the March 4 elections. A few of them based in South Africa who were home for the holidays were overheard grumbling that they would suspend their remittances as they did not see the value of helping the economy run by a government whose election they will not be able to participate. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face!
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Flamboyant Makadara MP Mike Sonko was over the holidays spotted in Likoni with a group of youth and elders trying to address the thorny issue of a pending eviction of about 50,000 people living on the 930-acre Waitiki Farm. The MP reportedly agreed to organize a trip of about 40 of the squatters to Nairobi to meet with the Jubilee coalition presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta so that they can plead their case not to be evicted from the land. The courts have already granted the owner of the land, Evans Waitiki, orders to go ahead and evict the squatters.
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