PICTURE: Interior CS Kithure Kindiki appearing before the National Assembly’s Departmental Committee on Education
Interior CS Kithure Kindiki has pledged to enhance dominance patrols in the Northern Eastern and Upper Coastal regions to detect and neutralise terror attacks targeting civilians, security officers, critical infrastructure, and personnel, such as teachers, road construction engineers and hydrologists.
This comes after CS Kindiki appeared before the National Assembly’s Departmental Committee on Education chaired by Hon. Julius Melly.
Kindiki also noted that over the last ten years, 37 teachers have lost their lives and others injured in terror attacks, prompting the Government to take a series of short-term measures to protect teachers stationed in Arid and Semi-Arid areas (ASAL) and other parts of the Country that are prone to security threats.
Some of the measures include pooling together teachers and accommodating them in secure spaces, strengthening security in schools, and collaborating with local communities to share information on any security threats or suspicious persons sighted within the locality of their workplaces and residences.
In the long-term, the Government, through the elaborate deployment of specialised security units, plans to eliminate the threat of terrorism and restore normalcy, peace, and stability in the affected regions and open them up for investment and development.