The Kisumu County government has been challenged to speed up the setting up of the County Metropolitan police.
Last year, the county assembly passed a County Metropolitan Police Bill which would enable the county government to set up a county metropolitan police to work hand in hand with the national police service in curbing the lakeside city’s rising insecurity.
The move was also aimed at creating employment to the youth in the county who were to be recruited in the service.
Kisumu County Assembly Minority leader Edwin Anayo has now challenged the county government to speed up the setting up of the security organ as the city’s security is threatened.
“Our role as a county assembly is legislation of bills and laws aimed at helping our people. The work of the executive is to implement whatever we have already legislated and passed,” he said.
He added, “The rate at which insecurity is rising in Kisumu is really wanting and that is why the county government should really act fast in employing our young men and women in the metropolitan police service to help secure our county’s borders.”
Speaking on Sunday during a church service at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Kisumu’s Milimani estate, he said that it was time for county governments to secure their counties.