President Ruto: Why I fired former DCI boss George Kinoti

President William Ruto has now revealed that he fired former Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) boss George Kinoti.

This comes in contrast to President Ruto’s own announcement on September 27, 2022 that the DCI boss had tendered his resignation.

The President, speaking during a joint interview at State House on Wednesday, disclosed that he relieved Kinoti of his duties for overseeing a team accused of multiple extrajudicial killings.

The Head of State also added that he has since tasked the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) with probing and getting to the bottom of the said killings with the aim of bringing the perpetrators to book.

“I had a thorough meeting with IPOA and we have agreed that it is not necessary for us to establish another taskforce when IPOA is there and it is squarely within their mandate to tell us how Kenyans ended up being killed in this manner and it was business as usual,” he stated.

“Thirty bodies in Yala, 17 in Garissa, there was a container here at Nairobi area where people were being slaughtered, in a police station…how did we end up there? What kind of rogue institution was that? And that is why I fired that Kinoti man, because it’s not right.There will be responsibility.”