Power supremacy between Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) boss George Kinoti and Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji has been cited as one of the key hinderances to the administration of justice.
Yesterday Haji sparked off new fresh debate saying Kinoti is his junior and only deals with Inspector General, Hillary Mutyambai.
“My relationship is with the IG, who is in charge of the police service and to whom I give instructions. DCI is an officer under the IG. As such, my relationship should be gauged with the IG,” Noordin Haji said.
“I have quite a number of deputy directors who are at the same level as him. You can ask my deputy director in charge of corruption, there is another one in the homicides department. Those are the people he should be dealing with,” he continued.
The two of them have been involved in bitter power struggles that ended with a lot of cases in court being delayed and many others mishandled.
In May, The DCI director called for the arrest of Haji for forgery, claiming that the DPP falsified an attendance list of Terrorism and Terror Financing Act stakeholder forum that was held in March.
Another instance was in April 2020 after former KPA Managing Director Daniel Manduku was arrested and presented to court by the DCI on graft allegations, but the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) refused to charge him.
This later led to the Director of Criminal Investigations complaining about how his officers were frustrated and humiliated in the war against corruption.
“My officers are now getting frustrated daily. They spend a lot of time investigating crime, risking their lives — and even after getting all the evidence required to prosecute cases, they are reduced to carrying files” decried Kinoti on the matter.