A Kiambu county commissioner has expressed his worries over the recent sacking of chiefs.
Saying that the sacked chiefs may end up in crime, Thika Sub-County Deputy county commissioner Jeremiah Gicheru said this is possible since the chiefs have the knowledge of all the strategies used by the police.
Gicheru said that there is need to delve deeper into the matter before implementing the sacking as some actions have negative consequences.
He added that the chiefs he has been working with are reformed criminals and they had changed the community considering they had been engaging directly with the criminals.
Gicheru, who was speaking from Thika on Thursday, called on Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery to rethink the move and use a better method of punishing the administrators rather than sacking them.
He said the move would later give the police a hard task of fighting crime in the society committed by the former administrators.
“We should consider a better way of punishing them. It’s not always good to give room to a problem when looking for a solution. They have done a good job and they should be in a better position to continue and those going astray moulded into better leaders,” he said.
This is contrary to the views of the area MP Alice Ng’ang’a who has insisted that the reinstating of sacked corrupt chiefs will give room to reluctance from the others and thus increase the criminal incidences.
The legislator, speaking in a different occasion, said that the war against illicit brews has been slowed down by the corrupt administrators and thus they should go into jail for going contrary to their mandate.