By Cyrus Ombati
NAIROBI,KENYA: Career civil servant Elijah Ochieng Achoch has been named as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Police Service Commission (NPSC).
Achoch who has been the director of transformative civil service in the former Office of the Prime Minister beat nine other candidates to emerge the best.
The commission named him the CEO last Friday and announced he will start work immediately to enable them cover the lost ground in efforts to fast track police reforms.
Achoch is a certified public secretary and has in the past worked at the ministry of labour.
“We have confidence in him as he will be liaising with other agencies in ensuring that we achieve our goals,” saidcommission Chairman Johnston Kavuludi.
Ten candidates were interviewed for the position including George Arogo, Rachael Atamba, Francis Muge, Titus Ingaa, Achoch, Susan Muchera, Joshua Wambua, Thomas Serem, K. Lagat and Maria Cherono.
The CEO will run administrative matters of the commission.
The development comes as the commission took its wars to President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday and sought his intervention in solving wars between it and office of the Inspector General of Police.
Some of the commissioners sought the meeting with Uhuru and they were granted permission before they went for discussions that lasted for up to four hours at State House.
The wars pit NPSC, IGP’s office and Office of the President. Sources said the commissioners had complained that some outsiders are interfering with their operations hence affecting their work.
The tug of war entails the current laws that govern the operations of the police service. Uhuru is said to have told the commissioners including IGP David Kimaiyo to stop squabbling and come up with a working strategy in achieving their goals of police reforms.
The president ordered the shelving of proposed amendments of police laws and implements them first before they consider the changes
