Interior Cabinet secretary Joseph Nkaissery yesterday urged Inspector General of Police (IG) Joseph Boinnet and National Police Service Commission (NPSC) chairman Johnston Kavuludi to have another meeting in order to verify and confirm names of the controversial list of newly promoted senior officers.
Recently there was controversy following presentation of conflicting list that saw different officers promoted to the same post.
Blaming communication lapses, Kavuludi defended existed of parallel list though Boinnet said there was a little anomaly but they have since resolved it.
“I have this morning met with IGP and the chairman of the NPSC. We agreed on the way forward. Of course there is no conflict whatsoever with the commissioners of NPSC.
The decision on police promotion will be released after verification and confirmation,” he said yesterday during a joint briefing with Boinnet and Kavuludi.
The list from police headquarters did not include the names of National Police Service (NPS) spokesperson Charles Owino, Mary Omari, Noah Mwivanda, Fred Situma, Rosemary Kuraru, Jackson Kazungu, Jebel Ngere and Gitari Njoka who had been elevated to a new rank of the Acting Inspector General of Police as indicated by NPSC. “The chairman will convene a meeting and ensure what happened does not happen again,” he added.