Aye aye, captain: Boinett criticised for naming police boat after himself

Inspector General, Joseph Boinett, recently found himself on the receiving end of Kenyans On Twitter over a police boat name.

After commissioning 6 patrol boats for patrol in Mombasa on Wednesday, IG Boinnet has been accused of inflating his own ego by naming one of the boats after himself.

The Inspector General said the boats would help in responding to emergencies, but Kenyans On Twitter just weren’t willing to let him off so easily.

Earlier today, I commissioned 6 new Police Patrol Boats at the Maritime Police Unit in Kilindini Mombasa, as part of the ongoing Police modernisation programme.The boats will be used to patrol our coastal & inland water bodies to fight crime as well as respond to any emergencies. pic.twitter.com/tiA6W2hn5z

— Joseph Boinnet (@JBoinnet) November 8, 2017

Are you real @JBoinnet? You've named this new police boat after yourself? pic.twitter.com/fCCcogPU1e

— TheNortherner (@alaminkimathi) November 8, 2017

and he put his name on them… as if he bought them for his personal use

— Quin'c (@quinc_ochieng) November 9, 2017

Funny that these boats are state resources but your name is on them. What does that show us. You claim to be a police inspector yet what you do equates you to a criminal

— hamisi samwel (@HamisiHamisisi) November 8, 2017

was it necessary that you put your name on them?hope they won't be used to harass innocent fishermen like most patrol cars going round collecting 50kshs from every bar

— Idriss Donnel (@idrissdonnel) November 9, 2017

How many have been designated for Lake Victoria?

— Albert Kasembeli (@akasembeli) November 9, 2017

But why did you brand the boats "Boinnet"as if its your property?

— Abdi Ngurusi (@AbdiNgurusi7) November 9, 2017

So a police man has a police boat on his name, did you buy it with your pocket money or it's Kenyan taxes. Toa hio jina Happ sisi hapana tambua. Nonsense

— Benjamin Kivulu (@bkabeste) November 8, 2017

it is just the old same way…any African leader would always his name appear on public property so as to be rememberd bcz they wont be rememberd for any good thing

— Diriye Mahamud (@diriye_mahamud) November 9, 2017

To the extend that you can name a boat Boinnet? You think criminals will fear the boat bcz of that name?

— Muteti (@Muteti89476120) November 9, 2017

Rub off your name on government property effective immediately!!!!!!!!!!! Nn

— Sir Elly Avhom (@SirAvhom) November 8, 2017

I thought you said police boats not MV Boinet

— Apple Collins (@collins_apple) November 9, 2017

Why the fame? You put your name on them as if u donated them to the Govt. wrong

— Collins Java (@CollinsJava) November 9, 2017

The IG will tell you they are investigating how his name found its way on the boat

— Gideon Barasa (@gidbara) November 9, 2017

Unbelievable. Gradually, this guy is slowly becoming an imperial police chief!

— Ben JN Keraro (@BenJN25_29) November 9, 2017