DRAMA In Tiaty As Angry Residents Storm Police Recruitment Exercise
During police recruiting in Tiaty sub-county, enraged people disrupted operations, citing misconduct.
Residents stormed the recruitment center, armed with branches, accusing officials of permitting aliens to participate in the exercise.
In videos shared online, outraged people can be seen confronting multiple police officers on the scene and demanding that the recruitment cease.
Locals attempted to prevent prospective police recruits from participating in particular drills at the time by identifying a number of people they said were not from the area.
Chants of “It can’t go on” and “Look, he is not from here” were heard from villagers, who made it impossible for the armed officers overseeing the drill to contain them.
Dear @EACCKenya:
— Stephen Mutoro (@smutoro) November 17, 2025
🪐When will these sham police/military recruitments end?
🪐Why subject desperate young men to sweaty, punishing runs only for almost all of them to lose out to predetermined “outsiders” — as witnessed in Tiaty, Baringo?
🪐This eternal fraud is killing dreams,… pic.twitter.com/472WSRFiSA
A well-known lawyer claimed on social media that non-locals had paid to enter the recruitment process in order to influence the officials in charge.
“The police recruitment exercise currently underway in Tangulbei, Chemolingot, and Kolowa Sub County headquarters has once again been compromised by reports of non-locals arriving with cash to influence officials overseeing the process,” the lawyer said.
“We call upon the National Police Service to urgently intervene and safeguard the integrity of this national exercise, enforce its recruitment policy without favour, and ensure that the youth from our communities benefit from the slots allocated to them.”
Douglas Kanja, Inspector General of Police, declared that recruiting would be a one-day event from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. across all 427 centers nationally.
This came after the court cleared the reopening of the recruitment process, which was initially announced on October 31.
Despite previous pledges from Kanja and Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen that the recruiting process would be free and fair, there have been claims of anomalies and suspected bias.
Prior to the Tiaty sub-county incident, a new Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission investigation had uncovered major problems in the recruitment process.
The research said that bribes, political meddling, and out-of-date manual procedures have long hindered the recruitment of police constables, cadets, specialists, and civilian personnel.
In research conducted between February 10 and June 13, the EACC discovered that established regulations were regularly violated while recruiting police constables.
It was hampered by slanted marketing, inconsistent selection criteria, and a lack of complaint processes, all of which created potential for corruption, according to the commission, making it difficult for the NPS to recruit and maintain skilled officers.
DRAMA In Tiaty As Angry Residents Storm Police Recruitment Exercise
