Interior Cabinet Kithure Kindiki has announced that the government will reshuffle police commanders in Kilifi County as the Shakahola cult investigations continue.
Addressing the media on Friday, April 28 in Kilifi, CS Kindiki stated that the reshuffle is a move to show the public that the government is working to ensure justice is served.
“The government has decided that effective today, we will transfer all station, division, sub-county, county heads and commanders of all agencies within Kilifi County. We will replace them with their colleagues from elsewhere so that we can show the public that what we are doing is for the good of the country and for the good of justice," said Kindiki.
He insisted that police bosses who ought to have received reports on the Shakahola cult earlier cannot be part of the team doing investigations.
"We are not implicating anybody but we are saying that if you were the OCS or if you are the commander or a person who ought to have either received a report or you may have received a report and then you failed to act, then you cannot be part of the team that is conducting the investigations," Kindiki added.
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The interior CS further stated that a team of security officials from the Ministry of Interior headquarters together with new police bosses who will be deployed in the county would take over the investigations.
Kindiki further stated that the exhumation of bodies in Shakahola was suspended on Friday due to heavy rains. He noted that the process would resume after the weather becomes favorable.
Security officials on Thursday exhumed 11 bodies including five children raising the death toll to one hundred and ten.
At the same time, Pastor Ezekiel Odero was arrested after it emerged that he had links with controversial Pastor Paul Makenzie who is the main suspect of the Shakahola deaths.
