The National Police Service Commission has up to midnight to hand over names of successful candidates for the positions of two Deputies IG and the DCI boss to President Uhuru Kenyatta. The commission, chaired by Johnston Kavuludi, has 14 days from January 5 to complete the recruitment. Senior cops kept off the jobs and said they knew the recruitment was over immediately the president appointed Mbugua, Kinoti and Gabow on acting capacity. But Kavuludi said the appointments were done in consultation with the commission and IG [Joseph Boinnet] before the president announced. Read: Kinoti, Mbugua were the only qualified applicants, Kavuludi says

Source: The Star January 19, 2018 13:07 UTC