Murkomen Issues Fresh Directive On Hiring Chiefs After Recent Gazette Notice
Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has directed that Chiefs and Sub-chiefs be chosen beginning next week to address insecurity in Samburu County.
During a church service in Kerio Valley on July 5, he directed that all interviews with Chiefs and Sub-chiefs be performed and concluded by this week.
The CS emphasized that this would allow qualified candidates to be stationed in their designated areas as soon as feasible.
“I have ordered that all the locations that the government had gazetted previously be made public, and I am ordering the County Commissioner to fast-track the interview process of the Chiefs and the Sub-Chiefs to be done by this week, so that by next week, all the qualified candidates will be stationed in the newly zoned locations,” stated Murkomen.
In 2024, the Ministry of Interior established Samburu West as the only new sub-county in Samburu County, with Loosuk serving as its headquarters.
I will exalt you, my God, the King; I will praise your name for ever and ever. Every day I will praise you and extol your name forever and ever.” Psalm 145:1-2.
This morning, we joined the faithful of Ledero Catholic Church in Maralal Ward, Samburu County, for Sunday Mass and a… pic.twitter.com/XSVo5fE516— KIPCHUMBA MURKOMEN, E.G.H (@kipmurkomen) July 5, 2026
Within the restructuring, the Loosuk Division was established as the sole new administrative division under Samburu West sub-county.
This is the zone Murkomen wants to deploy more security operatives to tackle banditry.
Additionally, the CS has warned that no civilians should be caught in possession of a gun in Samburu and the Kerio Valley Region, to be specific.
For its success, the CS has ordered that more Kenya Police Reserve (KPR) officers be deployed in the region.
He also directed the return of the SOG (Special Operations Group), an elite, highly classified paramilitary counter-terrorism and anti-banditry unit.
CS Murkomen also used the platform to warn politicians in the area against using the youth in the region by giving them guns to cause instability in the region.
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He said that if any youth is caught by police operatives, they will carry their own cross.
“I am warning any politician in this area: if you are caught selling huns to these youths, your days are numbered,” stated Murkomen.
“And you, as a youth, if you are caught with a gun, sold to you by a politician, you will carry your own cross in the face of justice.”
Banditry and cattle rustling in the Kerio Valley, spanning Elgeyo Marakwet, Baringo, and West Pokot counties, have escalated into organized violence driven by territorial disputes, revenge attacks, and commercial looting across the volatile pastoralist region.
The protracted conflict primarily involves the Pokot, Marakwet, and Tugen pastoralist communities.
Criminal syndicates have deployed sophisticated weaponry and hide within the rugged, inaccessible terrain of the Tiaty hills, Silale, and Nadome areas in Baringo.
Murkomen Issues Fresh Directive On Hiring Chiefs After Recent Gazette Notice
