A police officer has requested
commissioner Ronald Musengi
to take him to his wife so he can ask her to surrender her bank statement.
Chief inspector
Policarp Ochieng said
his first wife, Elizabeth, who is also in the police service, adamantly refused to give him the document.
"I have tried my best to no avail," Ochieng told the puzzled team
during his vetting in Nakuru on Monday.
"Come and assist me to talk to her so she can understand the need for it."
The officer based in Eldoret had been given two weeks to submit the his wife's statement to the commission.
But Musengi said the inspector's request could not be granted.
"That is not our mandate. Our work is to vet. You need to submit all the documents required,” he said.
Ochieng was also put to task concerning his business partners and their dealings; he had received money through M-Pesa on more than seven occasions
He said he and three of his colleagues were in the maize business.
But Musengi told him:
“Your colleague Kennedy Rucho, who was vetted in the morning, said you were doing a guinea fowl business. What can you tell the commission?"
The officer said Rucho was trying to implicate him or to use his name to venture into businesses he did not know of.
Police officer Patrick Thairu, who is in charge of driving tests in Gilgil, was asked for the details of his A-level certificate, which did not tally with his transcript.
He said he lost his original certificate and paid for a certified copy but that it did not match the transcripts he was yet to submit.
The exercise began on Monday and will end on September 3. Three hundred and thirty officers from Rift Valley will be vetted.
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