Boni Khalwale has urged president Uhuru Kenyatta to sack more people after three inmates escaped Kamiti Maximum prison.
The three, Musharaf Abdalla, Mohamed Abikar and Joseph Odhiambo escaped the prison on Monday and their whereabouts still remain unknown.
Khalwale advised the president to send home the National Intelligence Service Director-General Philip Kameru, Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i and Interior Principal Secretary Karanja Kibicho.
Speaking during an interview at Citizen TV, Khalwale lauded president Kenyatta’s move to sack the Commissioner-General of the Kenya Prisons Service Wycliffe Ogalo on Wednesday.
“Having done this, I wonder what he is thinking about the head of the NIS, Matiang’i, and Kibicho. The NIS prefers to follow telephone conversations of politicians with their family members and other contacts rather than deal with serious security issues. Matiangi and Kibicho, the same; they never run short of words, time, to talk politics when the real work to be done is this,” stated Khalwale.
According to the former Kakamega county senator, it was time to reform the entire country’s security system.
“Maybe the president should consider getting rid of these three people as a clear warning that the security of the nation is greater than all of us,” he said.
Khalwale urged the president to cleanse the prisons since the whole system is full of rot.
“The police and prison officers are not just ordinary civil servants; they work under a strict code of conduct and therefore, it is very difficult for a decision to be acted on in the police and the prisons unless a command has been released,” stated Khalwale.
“This points to the fact that right from the top up to the prison warden, the whole system is rotten. It requires an overhaul, retraining of police and prison officers and better vetting on who should be promoted in the police force and prisons,” he added.
Ogalo was replaced by Brigadier (Rtd) John Kibaso Warioba.
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