Narc-Kenya leader Martha Karua during a news conference at the party's secretariat in Nairobi, December 31, 2012. She urged the Inspector General of Police to hasten the implementation of reforms to ensure peaceful elections next year. STEPHEN MUDIARI
By JEREMIAH KIPLANG’AT jkiplangat@ke.nationmedia.com
Posted Monday, December 31 2012 at 13:31
Posted Monday, December 31 2012 at 13:31
Narc-Kenya leader Martha Karua has urged the Inspector General of Police to hasten the implementation of reforms to ensure peaceful elections next year.
Ms Karua said a reformed police force is needed as the country goes to the polls on March 4, 2013 and after the elections.
She said it was possible to turn around the force in the remaining months before the elections just like the fast reforms in the Judiciary achieved within a short time.
“Chief Justice Willy Mutunga introduced reforms and the Judiciary got an uplift soon. Mr David Kimaiyo (Inspector General of Police) can do the same in the remaining period,” she said during a news conference Monday in Nairobi.
The presidential hopeful said the security challenges Kenyan faced in 2012 should not be carried over into the new year.
Mr Kimaiyo took office on December 24 and has had to deal with a full plate of security challenges including the renewed Tana River clashes and recent unrest in Mathare and Kiamaiko slums in Nairobi.
“We have had a difficult year as far as internal security is concerned. Our police force has not shown the same competence and professionalism that Kenyan Defence Forces displayed in Somalia,” Ms Karua said.
Mr Karua has maintained she would not enter into pre-election coalitions saying she was firmly in the presidential race and would name her running mate after endorsement as Narc Kenya's presidential flagbearer.
“I have plans A, B, and C but all the plans are to win the March 4 elections,” the Gichugu MP said.
She asked for more media coverage saying focus had been on two coalitions, Jubilee and Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (Cord) yet others “have something different from what the two coalitions are offering Kenyans".
Ms Karua has sold her candidature on the premise that she was the most trustworthy presidential aspirant. On Monday, she said trust was the key factor to consider in choosing leaders.
“Kenyans need to have an employer who they can trust, a teacher, a police force they can trust and more importantly politicians who they can trust. Trust is a key thing in all the walks of life.
"We are urging them to keenly scrutinise the candidates from the county assembly representative to the presidency and pick those they trust most,” she said but declined to name any of the contestants who had failed in that respect.
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