Inspector General of Police Hillary Mutyambai has cracked the whip on a female administration police officer who on Wednesday aired her frustrations in a video doing rounds on social media.
In the video, AP Jane Asimizi claimed that her bosses had earlier assigned her the lucrative task of guarding exam containers in Kakamega only to give her another task with no incentives a few days later.
Speaking during an interview with K24 Digital on Friday, IG Mutyambai noted that he had ordered the AP to undergo a mental checkup, adding that the officer failed to air her frustrations through the right channels.
“The woman’s frustrations ought to have been channeled through private avenues. As a police officer, she shouldn’t have gone public to express her anger. I have given instructions for the officer to be taken to hospital [for mental examination]. We are managing the matter without raising hullabaloo about it,” said Mutyambai as quoted by the daily.
AP Asimizi had claimed that she was being transferred to an area where there are no other incentives other than her salary.
“I am fed up, and I want my gripe to reach my bosses in Nairobi, and [even the Interior minister] Fred Matiang’i. For the lengthy period that I have served in the disciplined forces, I have never breached any regulations. My seniors can bear me witness. With such unappealing postings, I am only left with my salary to survive on. Special tasks such as exam container-guarding duties often allow a cop to make extra money,” she said.
However, her boss, Western Kenya deputy regional police commander Leonard Omollo said Asimizi had not been deployed to guard any exam container as she had claimed.
“I would like to state categorically that nobody deployed that [police] officer to guard that container,” he said.