{"id":14162,"date":"2020-09-10T17:41:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T17:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=14162"},"modified":"2020-09-10T17:41:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T17:41:03","slug":"dp-ruto-tells-security-officers-to-stick-to-their-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/dp-ruto-tells-security-officers-to-stick-to-their-lane","title":{"rendered":"DP Ruto tells security officers to stick to their lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author:\u00a0Mercy Asamba\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Deputy President William Ruto has told police officers and their boss Inspector General of Police Hillary Mutyambai to stop engaging in politics and do the jobs that they are paid to do.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing his supporters in Kisii on Thursday, DP Ruto claimed that police officers had been dragged into politics with threats and intimidation and that they should stop.\u00a0\u201cI want to tell the IG not to accept political assignments because his job is not politics, his job is security,\u201d he said amid cheers from a crowd.\u00a0He also told administrators to disregard directives from their bosses to cause chaos in political gatherings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet us respect administrators so that they can do their jobs\u2026 And all those who work in the provincial administration they should carry out their jobs in according with the law. And they should not accept illegal political assignments,\u201d the DP said. He claimed that a section of residents had been given money by his political enemies to cause chaos but only a few of the residents heeded to the advice.<\/p>\n<p>In the morning,\u00a0riots were witnessed in Kisii County ahead of his visit to the region.\u00a0Mobs protesting for and against Ruto visit woke up as early as 5am to barricade the Daraja Moja-Kisii road turning the road into a battleground.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list-group readmore my-3\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Police officers used teargas to disperse the two rival groups.<\/p>\n<p>When the clashes subsided, police patrolled with the streets as the new Kisii Regional Commissioner Magu Mutindika held a security meeting with Regional Police Commandant Lydia Ligami and DCI&#8217;s David Kipsoi.\u00a0Ruto was set to fundraise for a boda-boda Sacco at Nyanchwa grounds before addressing a rally in the town.\u00a0He would then proceed to Nyamarambe Sports Ground in South Mugirango for another Harambee in aid of women and youth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author:\u00a0Mercy Asamba\u00a0 AfricaPress-Kenya: Deputy President William Ruto has told police officers and their boss Inspector General of Police Hillary Mutyambai to stop engaging in politics and do the jobs that they are paid to do. Addressing his supporters in Kisii on Thursday, DP Ruto claimed that police officers had been dragged into politics with threats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":14156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12],"tags":[1105,2481,312],"class_list":["post-14162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-hillary-mutyambai","tag-kisii","tag-william-ruto"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DP Ruto tells security officers to stick to their lane - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Deputy President William Ruto has told police officers and their boss Inspector General of Police Hillary Mutyambai to stop engaging\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/dp-ruto-tells-security-officers-to-stick-to-their-lane\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DP Ruto tells security officers to stick to their lane\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Deputy President William Ruto has told police officers and their boss Inspector General of Police Hillary Mutyambai to stop engaging\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/dp-ruto-tells-security-officers-to-stick-to-their-lane\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-09-10T17:41:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/09\/ruto_tells_security_5f5a200c3bd9c.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"516\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/dp-ruto-tells-security-officers-to-stick-to-their-lane#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/dp-ruto-tells-security-officers-to-stick-to-their-lane\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"DP Ruto tells security officers to stick to their lane\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-10T17:41:03+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/dp-ruto-tells-security-officers-to-stick-to-their-lane\"},\"wordCount\":310,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/dp-ruto-tells-security-officers-to-stick-to-their-lane#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/09\/ruto_tells_security_5f5a200c3bd9c.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Hillary Mutyambai\",\"Kisii\",\"William Ruto\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/dp-ruto-tells-security-officers-to-stick-to-their-lane#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/dp-ruto-tells-security-officers-to-stick-to-their-lane\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/dp-ruto-tells-security-officers-to-stick-to-their-lane\",\"name\":\"DP Ruto tells security officers to stick to their lane - 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