Senate Majority Leader Aaron Cheruiyot on Sunday called for the resignation of Inspector General of Police Japhet Koome.
Speaking in Bomet County, the Senator regretted that the IG was nowhere to be seen as bandits continued to terrorise residents of Kerio Valley.
Cheruiyot remarked that since IG Koome was appointed, he had taken a backseat in matters of national security.
The United Democratic Alliance (UDA) elected senator called for the resignation of IG Koome during a Sunday service at AGC Church in Bomet where Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi was also in attendance.
“If he is overwhelmed by the job, let him resign and we bring new people who can ensure our people are safe,” Cheruiyot stated.
Addressing PCS Musalia Mudavadi, Cheruiyot requested to have the issue addressed at the next cabinet meeting.
“Tell him to get out of Jogoo House, and go to Kerio Valley where our brothers and sisters are being murdered every day,” Cheruiyot told Musalia.
The Kericho senator added that he was always bemused to see people complaining to Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki about the rising banditry cases in the North Rift.
The legislator states that the office of the Inspector General was an independent office and he should be the one being asked about insecurity in various parts of the country.
“I want to ask that person we gave the IG job, that Koome, where did he go? I never hear his voice,” he complained.
Cheruiyot's remarks came three days after IG Koome briefed President William Ruto on the measures being taken to combat insecurity in the North Rift.
The meeting was also attended by Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki and his Principal Secretary Raymond Omollo together with IG Koome’s deputies.
