Africa-Press – Kenya. Deputy President Ragathi Gachagua has warned politicians against using police officers and other public servants for political purposes.
Speaking on Monday while presiding over the World Food Day Annual Celebrations in Kajiado County, the DP said chiefs and commissioners should only do what they are being paid for.
“Serikali ya William Ruto haitatumia machief na macounty commisisoner kwa mambo ya siasa. Hio hapana kazi yao (William Ruto’s government will not use chiefs and county commissioners to do politics, that’s not their work,” he stated.
He said police officers are a vital component of the country but they are being used for wrong reasons politically.
Gachagua said that the Kenya Kwanza regime attained political power without the help of police and chiefs.
“The President and I have made it clear. We shall manage our own politics. We don’t need the police, we don’t need DCI, we don’t need KRA, we don’t need any government agency to manage our politics. We shall manage the politics ourselves,” Gachagua said.
During the campaigns, Gachagua and the entire Kenya Kwanza fraternity claimed that the Jubilee administration was using administrators to campaign for Azimio candidate Raila Odinga.
On Sunday, President William Ruto also claimed that a DCI unit that was being used by the previous regime to kill Kenyans has been disbanded.
Gachagua said the culture of police being used for extrajudicial killings is now gone.
“We are not going to use our officers to kill anybody. We don’t want extrajudicial killings in the Republic of Kenya,” he said.
The DP said should someone commit a crime, they should be taken to court with evidence but police should desist from taking matters into their own hands by killing people without a court verdict.
He asked police officers not to accept to be misused for political reasons but to align their work to the Constitution.
Gachagua assured public servants that their jobs are safe and they will not be given tasks that are not theirs.
“We shall give you the working environment and dignify your work by not assigning you duties that do not belong to you,” Gachagua said.
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