Ugly tales as Kenyans pass ‘vote of no confidence’ in police recruitment

Isiolo AP commander Fredrick Ochola checks a youth who turned up for AP recruitment in Isiolo.

NAIROBI, KENYA: The Kenya Police Service recruitment concluded last week has been described as the biggest scam involving Kenya’s uniformed forces.

Leaders and the public say the exercise was not credible and should be nullified. The Parliamentary Security Committee has also dismissed the process, saying it was not above board. “I am a member of the House Security Committee investigating the exercise and we shall soon make a report to Parliament. Their outcry and personally, I feel the police did not do a good job and have characteristically refused to reform from a force to a police service,” said Gatanga MP Humphrey Njuguna.