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President Uhuru Kenyatta will have powers to directly appoint and remove police chiefs from office at will if MPs pass a Bill set to be tabled in the House this week.
The Bill also seeks to say that it is not mandatory for one of the top three police officers to be a woman.
In addition, the Bill seeks to remove security of tenure for the police oversight authority chairman and board members.
The new provision says the President can remove, retire or redeploy a deputy inspector-general before the age of retirement.
The President gets similar powers over a director of criminal investigations.
These powers are now with the National Police Service Commission which can sack police chiefs with Parliaments approval.
The latest changes come on the heels of the dramatic exit of Ms Grace Kaindi as deputy inspector-general. President Kenyatta appointed Mr Joel Kitili to replace her in an acting capacity. Last week, Ms Kaindi went to court to challenge him and the court stopped the recruitment of a substantive replacement.
Yesterday Law Society of Kenya chief executive Apollo Mboya said the Bill is an attempt to remove some people from police oversight authority. It is sanitisation as we move to 2017.
He said the amendment should be opposed.
We dont understand why the attorney-general cant advise the Government, he said.
Source: Daily Nation
The Bill also seeks to say that it is not mandatory for one of the top three police officers to be a woman.
In addition, the Bill seeks to remove security of tenure for the police oversight authority chairman and board members.
The new provision says the President can remove, retire or redeploy a deputy inspector-general before the age of retirement.
The President gets similar powers over a director of criminal investigations.
These powers are now with the National Police Service Commission which can sack police chiefs with Parliaments approval.
The latest changes come on the heels of the dramatic exit of Ms Grace Kaindi as deputy inspector-general. President Kenyatta appointed Mr Joel Kitili to replace her in an acting capacity. Last week, Ms Kaindi went to court to challenge him and the court stopped the recruitment of a substantive replacement.
Yesterday Law Society of Kenya chief executive Apollo Mboya said the Bill is an attempt to remove some people from police oversight authority. It is sanitisation as we move to 2017.
He said the amendment should be opposed.
We dont understand why the attorney-general cant advise the Government, he said.
Source: Daily Nation
