Koome Names New Nairobi Police Boss After CS Kindiki Order
The changes take effect immediately. This is after Interior Cabinet Secretary (CS) Kithure Kindiki hinted at a radical overhaul of the police force.
Marvin Chege 
Inspector General of Police, Japhet Koome, has reshuffled the administration of the Nairobi branch of the National Police Service (NPS).
In the changes, Adamson Bungei has been appointed the new Nairobi police chief, taking over from James Mugera who has since retired from the force after attaining retirement age. Bungei was previously the Baringo County Police commander.
Also affected is Abdallah Komesha, who was recently moved to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations Headquarters as the Head of Personnel, and has now been named the new Principal Deputy to the IG. He takes over from Munga Nyale who has been moved to Police Headquarters as the Director of Police Reforms.
Boniface Maingi who was the NPS Director of Personnel is now the Director of Operations after he took over from Rashid Yakub who has been deployed to head the Community Policing wing as the director.
Judy Lamet who was the Director of the Child Protection Unit at Vigilance House has been promoted to Deputy Director of Police operations.
The changes take effect immediately. This is after Interior Cabinet Secretary (CS) Kithure Kindiki hinted at a radical overhaul of the police force the previous day.
"We have already started taking measures already to deal with the emerging crime trend in Nairobi. In this regard, the command of the Nairobi city police has changed effective immediately," Kindiki stated on Monday, November 14.
"We have witnessed increasing criminal activity within Nairobi. Those boys who have dared the government and want to tell us that they can take over the city and make it a city of crime, we have heard you and therefore we are coming effective immediately," he said.
He announced that the NPS has put in place a multiagency and multidiscipline response to the insecurity problem "to get these our sons and maybe daughters to get them out of our streets and put them where criminals belong".
He added that the government is deploying multifaceted and multiagency responses to the challenge and the problem of banditry, warning that "We are coming to dismantle not only the criminals themselves but also to bring down the entire chain that has been the cattle/livestock rustling industry, the financiers, criminals, spiritual supporters, benefactors and those who purchase stolen livestock from Kenyans."
Nairobi Governor Sakaja beforehand met with IG Koome to address the uproar caused by the increasing cases of crime and mugging in the capital city.
The meeting which took place at Jogoo House in Nairobi saw the two agree on the following resolutions; operationalising the Nairobi City County Policing Authority, and the Traffic and Safety Committee; an ultimatum of a one-month notice on youth and gangs involved in crime to return illegal firearms in their possession.
"The governor has committed himself that he is going to make the Nairobi City County Policing Authority operational, as soonest possible, this is anchored in law, in the Police Act and its authority according to the national police act the governor is the chairperson," Koome, who is a few days old in office stated.
He further warned that the thugs will not seek solace behind the governor when caught in the act and that they will face the full force of the law.
