Kenya: CIC Wants Gender Equity in Police Jobs

20 December 2012

The Committee on the Implementation of the Constitution has threatened to go to court to challenge the appointment of the Inspector General and his two deputies.

CIC said the two Principals must abide by Section 14 of the National Police Service Act which on gender parity. Chairman Charles Nyachae yesterday said the commission is concerned that the three appointees are from the same gender.The law says, " In the entire recruitment and appointment of the Inspector General or Deputy Inspector General, the commission, Parliament and President, as the case may be shall (a) comply with the values and principles set out under the constitution, and in particular, Article 10, 27 and 232 of the constitution; and (b) ensure that at all times one of the three positions of the Inspector General and the two Deputy Inspector General is of opposite gender."

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