Former Garissa County CID boss Musa Yego who was interdicted over botched security operation during the Garissa University College terrorist massacre has been reinstated and posted in the volatile Lamu County in the same capacity.
In a circular signed by Mary Kaol, head of personnel at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, Yego is among twenty-seven gazetted officers redeployed.
They include ten Commissioners of Police (CP), ten Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), one Superintendent of Police (SP) and five Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP). The new deployments majorly affect those in the ranks of CCIO and Divisional Criminal Investigation Officers (DCIO).
Yego will replace Lamu County Criminal Investigation Officer (CCIO) Prosper Bosire who has been transferred to Kitui in the same capacity. “The deployment notices have already been sent out and takes effect immediately.”
A senior officer at Mazingira House said. Joseph Chumo has been moved from Nyeri’s Regional Commissioner’s (RC) office to Rift Valley RC office. Lydia Ligami is the now head of Transnational Crimes Unit. Ligami graduated recently after undertaking a course at the National Defence College.
Charles Mutua and Isaac Onyango both CCIO in Wajir and Makueni have been posted in Nyeri and Samburu in the same capacity respectively.
Julius maritime is the new Laikipia County CID boss while Paul letting takes over as the new head of Economic and Commercial Crimes Unit (ECCU) at Cid headquarters. Paul Ndambuki succeeds Paul Wachira at the Nairobi County government investigations office.
Wachira is the new Embakasi DCIO and replaces Peter Ndubi who takes over as the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport DCIO. Taveta DCIO David Karanja will swap positions with his Karen counterpart Alfred Ouko. Outgoing JKIA Cid boss Julius Mbati has been posted to Trans Nzoia West in the same capacity.
Yego was interdicted in 2015 alongside eight others including former North Eastern Regional Coordinator Ernest Munyi and Garissa County Commissioner Njenga Miiri.
They were being probed personal culpability of security lapse that left 148 people dead among them 142 students.
Besides Yego, others sent packing pending investigations were the then Garissa Administration Police County Commander Christopher Muthee(Assistant Inspector General of Police), Charles Wambugu (County Police Commander, Senior superintendent of Police), area OCPD Benjamin Ong’ombe, Sub County AP Commander Cheruiyot Sawe, Anti terror Police Unit boss Mutuku Kimanzi and deputy OCS Garissa Police Station Charles Ayoro.
