POLICE REFORMS ON COURSE: BETH MUGO VS SAITOTI

Job,
only a deluded soul will sit in kenya waiting for peace. If you are in Kenya better be armed and carry concealed weapon all the time. If those Kawangare youth were using Machine guns to counter thesMurderous police. Saitoti won't be spewing the childish garbage. Remember over 400 kenyans were shot in the back by AP police during PEV. 0ver 4,000 young men are dead after Michuki ordered their Killing.
We need a Execution chamber for some of these police men. A revival of the French Gulitone

I say return an eye for an eye

If this thugs ever touch my family they will pay

these days a week does not go by without two or three extrajudicial killings

AP TO SERVE PNU IN 2012, CLAIMS ODM

Date: Mon 08th March 2010
Mediahouse: The Star
Page: 1

BY MOSOKU GEOFFREY

THE rising power of the Administration Police looks likely to be the next flashpoint between the ODM and the PNU.

An internal party document prepared by the office of ODM Secretary Prof Anyang' Nyong'o raises concerns on the role the AP might play in the 2012 General Election.

The document concludes it is now essential to call in Chief Mediator Kofi Annan to rescue the coalition government. "If left unaddressed, these situations would result in a conflagration of violence worse than the post-elections mayhem we experienced after the rigged 2007 elections," states the document.

The document dated March 5 is headed "ODM's response to the President's speech" and is a response to President Kibaki's State of the Nation address to Parliament when it reopened on March 2. It claims that Kibaki's speech introduced a raft of legislation "that had not been discussed and agreed upon with the PM" and was angry over the "President's consistent usurpation of collective decision making".

The document' is especially concerned over the inclusion of a Police Reforms Bill in Kibaki's speech yet the Task Force on Police Reforms has not completed its work including the formation of a civilian oversight board.

The ODM accuses the President of deliberately failing "to mention the 'civilian' nature of police accountability" in his speech to Parliament. The document also said that Kibaki's call in his speech for leaders to "not politicise or personalise' the fight against corruption" in his Parliament speech was aimed at undermining Prime Minister Raila Odinga and "scoring political points rather than uniting the country".

"ODM is very concerned by the President's refusal to allow a complete restructuring and overhaul of the Administration Police.
Most Kenyans know the partisan and destructive role the APs played in the rigging and mismanagement of the 2007 presidential elections," says the internal document.

"Whereas the recruitment and deployment of the regular police has stalled; the APs are being given military training; are getting sophisticated military equipment and are being armed like an elite Presidential 'Unit," the document concludes The AP recently set up a marine wing and are acquiring an air wing.

In 2007, the force formed the Rapid Deployment Unit in parallel to the police's General Service Unit. The Ransley report recommended that the two forces be brought under the single command.

The final version of the draft constitution in Parliament proposes that the two forces remain independent but report to an Inspector General of Police. The original Committee of Experts draft before Naivasha had proposed that the AP be disbanded and bundled back into the regular police.

"To make matters worse, similar suspicious activities have also been noticed at the National Security Intelligence Service," the document says. Immigration minister Otieno Kajwang yesterday confirmed ODM was analysing the AP expansion. "Why are we building' a parallel police?" he asked.

"Why invest so much on the APs and not the regular police? Even the AP commandant has been elevated to the level of Police Commissioner." "Why are we equipping the APs with helicopters and speed boats which rival those of the armed forces?" he repeated.

"The APs can be misused and cause mayhem like in the last general elections since they take orders from politicians such as the Minister for Internal Security. They are not like the police who can distinguish between lawful and' unlawful orders," he added.

PNU vice chairman and nominated MP George Nyamweya accused ODM said that there was nothing wrong with the expansion. "This is part of the government's expansion programme to reduce the ratio 9f police to population from 1:1200 to 1:400 as set by the international standards. Why play politics with this matter?" he asked.

The ODM insists, "This is not the way a coalition government is managed. These situations certainly do not augur well for the conduct of free and fair elections in 2012". "ODM is a senior partner in the coalition. It will not allow a junior partner to act recklessly in total' disregard of all the principles and rules", it states. "Under the circumstances and because the coalition is now completely dysfunctional, ODM has resolved to seek external intervention, specifically from the AU-mandated Panel of Eminent African Personalities chaired by Kofi Annan", it concludes.

The ODM document adds to the mystery surrounding an arms cache that was discovered by police in Narok last month. The munitions originated from the AP training school armoury.

When he visited Narok, Raila accused the police of a cover-up. "Munir ni mtu mdogo tu, mbona kumshika mosongareli na sungura. Iko ndovu na simba, na hawa polisi wanawaogopa {Munir is a small man. Why arrest a squirrel and rabbit? There are. elephants and lions that the police fear)", Raila told a crowd in Narok.

ODM warns, "it cannot be business as usual when the Prime Minister's constitutional authority is being undermined, insubordination against him openly encouraged by his coalition partner, and conditions for discord and despondency artificially manufactured".

"The restructuring of the government that the PM has repeatedly requested remain outstanding," it says. "The reforms under all agenda items are patchy at best."

The ODM too is irked by what they term as Kibaki's continued reference to 'my government', when it should be 'our' government. "It is no .secret that ODM has always believed that the APs were used to rig elections in 2007. Raila has tried in vain to prevail upon Kibaki to make changes in the AP," said a minister close to Raila.