Interior and Coordination of National government Cabinet Secretary Joseph Ole Nkaissery and Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinnet at the APTC, Embakasi, June 8, 2017. [Photo: @JBoinnet/Twitter]The government has ruled out any possibilities of adding more security to Nasa presidential candidate Raila Odinga and other aspirants in the race for presidency.Interior and Coordination of National government Cabinet Secretary Joseph Ole Nkaissery warned that Raila will not be given additional security personnel, ahead of August 8 polls.According to the former ODM Kajiado Central MP, the law allows all presidential candidates to be given three bodyguards for security and safety purposes, and not six or more."The law is very clear. We can not give more than three officers to one presidential candidate and leave others. They will see this as favouritism. So any presidential candidate must have at most three bodyguards. Nothing more," Nkaissery told the press, Thursday, in Embakasi.Speaking on the sidelines of a prayer service held in remembrance of 17 AP officers that were killed in recent Al-Shabaab attacks, Nkaissery affirmed that all presidential candidates would be accorded sufficient security during their campaigns.In a letter dated May 23, 2017 and addressed to the Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinnet, Raila requested that the number of his bodyguards be increased from 16 to 50 and be provided with 11 new cars.Through his Spokesman Dennis Onyango, the Nasa leader argued that his security detail needed to be strengthened as the current team guarding him was 'under strength'.In reply, Boinnet said Odinga already had adequate security, and mentioned that he did not see the need for more.The IG directed the former prime minister to refer to the Retirement Benefits (Deputy President and Designated State Officers) Act, No 8 of 2015 which states the seven benefits that the former PM and his running mate Kalonzo Musyoka (former vice president) are entitled to. They include three vehicles each, two saloon cars of an engine capacity not exceeding 2,000cc and one four-wheel-drive vehicle of an engine capacity not exceeding 3,000cc, all of which will be replaceable every four years.

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