Saturday, July 19, 2014

Recruitment to be repeated if graft proved - Kavuludi

Friday, July 18, 2014 - 00:00 -- BY ADOW MOHAMED
WE'RE INVESTIGATING: National Police Service Commission chairman Johnstone Kavuludi at a media briefing in Nairobi yesterday. Photo/PATRICK VIDIJA
WE'RE INVESTIGATING: National Police Service Commission chairman Johnstone Kavuludi at a media briefing in Nairobi yesterday. Photo/PATRICK VIDIJA
THE National Police Service Commission will nullify the recently concluded police recruitment if claims of widespread corruption are authenticated.
Addressing the press in Nairobi yesterday, commission chairperson Johnstone Kavuludi said they will carry out investigations.
He said the recruitment will be repeated if it is established set standards and ethics were not observed.
"In centres where it is ascertained the exercise was not above board, recruitment will be nullified and repeated," he said.
"Action will also be taken against those culpable during the recruitment including administrative action and possible prosecution."
Kavuludi said the recruitment will only be complete after all the results and reports from the respective chairpersons of the panels in the counties have been received, fully analysed and found satisfactory.
The exercise, which kicked off on Monday, was marred by claims of irregularities in many parts of the country.
Kavuludi said the commission will vet selected recruits in the next two months before they report for training in November.
"The vetting will verify the authenticity of their certificates and suitability to join the service," he said.
The Independent Police Oversight Authority and the Consumer Federation of Kenya have called for a repeat of the exercise.
Kavuludi has invited the two agencies to table any evidence to help them unravel the claims.
"Submit your observer report and any other complaints you may have received regarding the recruitment within seven days," reads a letter addressed to IPOA chair Macharia Njeru.
Kavuludi said the recruiting panels were not accepting laminated certificates because "once a certificate is laminated it loses its originality". He said KSCE result slips beyond 2013 were rejected.
Inspector General of police David said the formula used in the recruitment was universal. "Those are the best practices used worldwide. All recruits must be fit as a fiddle," he said.
- See more at: http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-177914/recruitment-be-repeated-if-graft-proved-kavuludi#sthash.yqaaD3Zf.dpuf

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