APs transferred from Uasin Gishu
About 152 Administration Police officers have been transferred from Uasin-Gishu District. A confidential letter in the possession of The Sunday Standard, shows all the 152 APs set for transfer are from one community. The APs have been posted to other districts in North Eastern, Eastern, Western, Central and Coast provinces.
The transfers follow complaints by politicians that APs are partisan in quelling post election crisis, especially along the Borabu-Sotik border. The letter dated January 31, 2008 from the Uasin-Gishu DC’s office, reads, “This is to inform you that you have been transferred from Uasin-Gishu District to districts indicated against your names.”
The letter further asks the APs affected to report to the district headquarters in Eldoret on February 7, 2008 for further information. “Please avail yourself as indicated without failure,” reads the letter in part. The letter is copied to PSs for Provincial Administration and Internal Security, and the provincial commissioners for North Eastern, Eastern, Western, Central, Coast and Rift Valley provinces. The letter, stamped confidential, is addressed to 38 district commissioners where the APs have been transferred.
Tigania District takes the largest share with 11 of the 152 having been transferred there followed by Lagdera with eight. Makueni has seven, Yatta six and Muranga North five. Some of the APs affected have questioned why only one community had been targeted, saying they were reading mischief in the exercise.
East African Standard
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