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IG Kanja ordered to surrender police payroll to NPSC

Douglas Kanja Kirocho Inspector General National Police Service speaking during commissioning of the new batch of mine resistant ambush protected standard duty vehicles at GSU headquarters in Nairobi on 6th March 2025.[Wilberforce Okwiri/Standard]

MPs have ordered Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja to surrender the police payroll and all human resource related functions to the National Police Service Commission (NPSC) with immediate effect.

This came on a day the IG and the Police Service's top brass including Deputy IG Gilbert Masengeli and accounting officer Bernice Lemedeket were put to task by the National Assembly's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) over their continued refusal to surrender the payroll to the commission which is constitutionally mandated to oversee its implementation.

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