Kipchumba Murkomen Asks All OCSs to Take Photos of Their Stations and Send to Him: "Are Colonial"
- Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen asserted his commitment to improving the outlook of police stations in Kenya
- He complained about the bad state of police stations in the country, stating that most of them have been in existence since the colonial era
- Murkomen explained how the OCSs sending pictures would help with the revamping process of the police stations
Faith Chandianya, a journalist at TUKO.co.ke, brings over three years of experience covering politics and Current Affairs in Kenya
Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has decried the sorry state of police stations in the country.
Source: Facebook
Speaking during the Jukwaa la Usalama event on Thursday, July 30, in Laikipia county, Murkomen stated that he noticed that most of the police stations date back to the colonial era.
"I don't know what percentage, but I know more than 60% of the police stations are colonial. Si nyinyi mmefanya kazi kila mahali, you're police officers. You've noticed that all police stations look alike, except the few that have been constructed by the CDF," Murkomen said.
Read also
Former police and military officers to be put under strict surveillance, Murkomen announces
Did Murkomen ask OCSs to send photos of police stations?
In a bid to have all the police stations improved, Murkomen stated that he had an agreement with the Inspector General of Police, Douglas Kanja, that all OCSs should take pictures of the stations they work in.
The pictures are meant to create a presentation that will be shown to concerned people who will help revamp the stations, according to Murkomen.
"I want to ask them if we are finding it difficult to build 1200 police stations, which is less than KSh 2 billion in this entire period," he said.
Murkomen stated that he is not trying to blame anybody, asserting that he also never paid attention to the state of stations until he became the Interior CS.
"I am guilty, I don't want to look like I am a clean man. I was minister for two years before I became the minister for Interior. Before that I could not even see a police station. So the other day, I went to two wards where I found pathetic police stations," he added.
Murkomen's move to change police stations outlook
Asserting his commitment to bring about change, Murkomen promised to ensure that police stations are given a new outlook under his leadership.
He stated that the IG had already come up with designs of what a standard police station should look like.
"I am going to push for resources. We cannot live like this. It's up to us to allocate resources; in the next two years, we should at least clean half of the police stations. Ikuwe proper police stations," Murkomen said.
Murkomen says all ex-officers to be monitored
This came after the Interior CS warned that the government would put ex-police and military officers under close surveillance.
Source: Facebook
He expressed his disappointment in ex-security agents forming groups that are against the Kenya Kwanza government.
While seemingly hitting out at ex-police officers Patrick Osoi, Cop Shakur and Hiram Kimathi for forming the Fighting Brutality and Impunity.
Proofreading by Asher Omondi, copy editor at TUKO.co.ke.
Source: TUKO.co.ke
