The New Year started on an optimistic note after President Uhuru Kenyatta nominated Joseph Kipchirchir Boinett to replace David Kimaiyo as the Inspector General of Police.
Coming shortly after Joseph Nkaiserry was approved by Parliament to replace Joseph Ole Lenku as Interior cabinet secretary, there is renewed hope that the country will put paid to the wave of insecurity wrought on the country by Al-Shabaab militants that saw many lives lost last year.