President Mwai Kibaki yesterday removed Major General Mohammed Hussein Ali from the top command of the Kenya Police. In his place, Kibaki appointed Mathew Iteere in a move likely to be seen as favouring the Mt Kenya bloc.
The move has evoked mixed feelings in Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s ODM party. On one hand, Raila and ODM are happy with Ali’s exit. They believe that Ali’s defence of Kibaki’s controversial election victory back in 2007 helped Kibaki retain the presidency when international mediation resulted in the current coalition government. For this reason, Raila has continually been insisting that Ali be fired as part of “police reforms.”
On the other hand, Ali’s replacement is from the Meru tribe – an ethnic group that has traditionally voted with President Kibaki’s Kikuyu ethnic group. Many in ODM see the President’s move as a consolidation of Mt Kenya’s dominance of powerful state positions.
Maj Gen Ali is now the new Postmaster General. More reactions are likely to follow in coming days. You can read more here:
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Good riddance to that under archieving major general. He led the police like a colonial instrument against the natives. He had little respect for human rights and the very law he was to see it should be upheld by all. His shallow intelligence of running such a big, strategic organisation, made it become more brutal and corrupt. No wonder the military has quickly retired him and let him be dumped at postal corporation.