Government to promote chiefs with degrees to Assistant County commissioners
Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen on Friday, April 11, directed that chiefs with degrees be promoted to assistant county commissioners.
Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen on Friday, April 11, directed that chiefs with degrees be promoted to assistant county commissioners.
Murkomen, while issuing a raft of new administrative directives, also revealed that each sub-county would have two principal chiefs and officers in marginalised areas would be transferred after three years.
As per the CS, the moves were aimed at streamlining administrative leadership, particularly at the county level.
While addressing residents at Tana River during the 5th Jukwaa la Usalama town hall meeting, Murkomen noted that the reforms would ensure a motivated workforce that was aligned to the needs of citizens.
“A motivated workforce is the key to better service to Wananchi. We are therefore firmly on course with our modernization program, which includes police and administrators’ welfare,” Murkomen stated.
Chiefs form part of the hierarchy of national government administrative officers and are typically in charge of locations. Their mandate is to coordinate government services at the grassroots level.
Assistant County Commissioners rank directly above chiefs and are responsible for divisions within sub-counties. Above them are Deputy County Commissioners, who in turn report directly to County Commissioners—representatives of the President in each of the 47 counties.
Murkomen further instructed the immediate transfer of police officers who have served in frontier counties such as Tana River for more than three years, giving a timeline of three months for the implementation of the directive.
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“I have today directed that all police officers who have served in Tana River and other frontline counties for more than three years be transferred immediately, and not later than three months,” he stated.
Murkomen disclosed that the rotation was aimed at curbing the overstaying of officers in such areas. This was, however, compounded by inadequate personnel, to which Murkomen presented a solution.
“I am aware that the shortage of personnel has affected the smooth implementation of the rotation of officers and that some have stayed in difficult operational areas for too long,” he stated.
“The planned recruitment of 10,000 police officers and rationalization, as well as a stricter implementation of the rotation policy, will help cure the problem of overstaying in one station,” Murkomen added.
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