A Senior Police Officer, Henry Muliro, had a hard time explaining how he received an office chair while serving in Kisumu as the DCIO.

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In the ongoing vetting of police officers by the National Police Service Commission (NPSC), commission member Ronald Musengi put Muliro to task over the chair he allegedly received while serving as a public official.

Muliro had during his two years tenure in Kisumu received the chair from a man only identified as a Khan who ran a furniture shop in the area.

His predecessor is reported to have also received a chair from the same man with further reports showing he moved out with the chair when he was transferred.

“He (Khan) came into my office and found me seated on a different chair from the one he had given earlier to my predecessor. I tried to find out about it to no avail,” he told the panel.

Khan is later said to have brought in another office chair with the panel questioning Muliro if he declared the seat as a donation following the earlier anomaly by his predecessor.

“I entered it in the inventory book at the police station. I however did not declare it as a donation but handed it over on transfer,” he said.

Muliro who is now serving as the Machakos DCIO came under a barrage of questions of how he dealt with the criminal gangs in Kisumu during his tenure as the officer charged to counter criminal activities.

Criminal gangs were said to have allegedly enjoyed police protection with Muliro in pains to defend his position at the time to try and contain its spread.

“When I came here (Kisumu) in 2012, we had criminal gangs which were even used politically and I am the person who dismantled them,” he said.

The senior officer explained how he singlehandedly organised with the prosecutors and magistrate at the Maseno Law Courts to have criminals take plea in the early hours of the morning to avoid confrontations with the gangs.

“As people were waiting for them to take plea in Kisumu, we had already taken them to court in Maseno and locked them away,” he said.

At least 108 senior officers in the ranks of senior superintendent and superintendent of police who include OCPDs and OCSs in the region are expected to be interviewed by the end of Wednesday.

The exercise aims to ensure professionalism in the police service which has come under question in many forums.