Interior Cabinet secretary Kithure Kindiki has disclosed that all police roadblocks across the country will be done away with from November 1, 2023.
The roadblocks will now be replaced with patrol security officers who will man the highways after an uproar over escalating incidents of bribery at the roadblocks.
Kindiki said the president directed the roadblocks to be removed within 90 days and introduce police patrols and other ways of achieving the security intentions of the road barriers
“This is a presidential directive and honestly roadblocks are an old form of security and should only be mounted on the request of the security operators, with a specific agenda and once achieved should be dismounted,” Kindiki told the Departmental Committee on Regional Integration.
The roadblocks will be replaced by patrol security officers along the highways and major corridors.
The Interior CS was answering questions when he appeared before the Departmental Committee on Administration and Internal Security on Thursday, August 24.