We need answers, not a thesis, Kavuludi to officer during vetting

Three police chiefs who had previously been vetted in the ongoing scrutiny of officers appeared before a vetting panel for the second time Monday.

The dramatic session was characterised by arguments with one officer being thrown out of the room for being combative.

Senior deputy commissioner of police Francis Okonye walked in for the 4th time before the police vetting board after a successful appeal that saw the court grant him another chance to be vetted, a chance to convince the board to get his old job back.

But no sooner had he arrived than the session took a different turn after he told the board that he wanted to present himself the way he knows best; a combative way.

Okonya was required to present documents accounting for 3 million shillings deposited in his account. Instead, according to board chair Johnstone Kavuludi, Okonya opted to table a dossier irrelevant to the vetting process that involved a housing project in Ruaraka.

“The question I asked want a specific answer. We didn’t ask you here to present a thesis,” agitated Kavuludi told Mr Okonya.

Things would only go downhill with Kavuludi asking Okonya to leave. However, Okonya would hear none of this and insisted on staying.

After a moment of confrontations, he decided to leave the room with Kavuludi noting; “We submit that he was combative and the commission is done.”

Eusebius Laibuta, who was in charge of the administration police college, was also vetted for a second time after he lodged an appeal.

Laibuta, who earlier had told the commission that he would die if sacked, wanted the exercise repeated since his supervisor the Deputy Inspector General of Police Samuel Arachi was not present when he was vetted the first time.