Kajiado: The government is in the process of constructing 17,000 housing units for members of the Disciplined Forces under the affordable housing program. Interior and National Administration CS Kipchumba Murkomen has said that poor living conditions are among the issues that the country's security personnel have been raising in the ongoing Jukwaa la Usalama Town hall meetings. As a result, the government is implementing measures to ensure that the officers live in dignified houses.
According to Kenya News Agency, CS Murkomen, while speaking in Kajiado County after inspecting the stalled police housing units at the Kajiado police station, revealed that the units will be completed in the next six months under the affordable housing program by the government. The construction of two blocks comprised of 100 units each began in 2017 but later stalled.
Murkomen added that as part of the program, the government will also drill a borehole to serve the houses and the entire police station. He emphasized the need for a clear program for building police stations, noting that more than 60 percent of current police stations are colonial and this situation is an indictment on the country. The CS expressed the government's commitment to modernize more than half of the police stations within the next two years.
The CS was accompanied by Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja, General Service Unit Commandant Ranson Lolmodooni, Director of Operations-APS Jackson Kangani, Kajiado County Commissioner Taari Rwaria, Kajiado Deputy Governor Martin Moshisho, Kajiado Central MP Memusi Kanchori, and his counterparts Kakuta Maimai (Kajiado East) and Sakimpa Parashina (Kajiado South), among other government officials.