Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen addressing Kenyans at the Embu Regional immigration office on May 9, 2025/ MINAThe Jukwaa la Usalama initiative that convenes opinion leaders, the National Government Administration Officers (NGAOs), security personnel and elected leaders for a town hall-style meeting resumes tomorrow after a brief break.
The meetings, conceived by Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen, are set to be held across all counties.
They are aimed at getting feedback on security, development, and service delivery concerns from the residents and leaders in open and candid conversations.
The town hall meetings are highly interactive, and participants are free to air their views and grievances.
The forums give the CS and his team an opportunity to get firsthand information regarding the security challenges that the public feel the government should give attention to and suggestions for possible interventions.
The CS also fields questions from attendees.
So far, the Jukwaa la Usalama caravan has traversed all the Coast and Eastern region counties, a total of 14 counties.
On Wednesday, July 16, Murkomen will kick off the Rift Valley region leg of the tour with the Turkana County edition in Lodwar town.
The CS will hold a security meeting with the county security team to be apprised of the security situation in the county. He will then proceed for a town hall meeting at the Lodwar Vocational Training College.
On Thursday and Friday, the CS will lead similar meetings in West Pokot and Turkana counties.
The deliberations from these meetings are documented to inform national policy decisions regarding security management, public administration, service delivery, and the welfare of security personnel and national administration officers.
The innovative approach to security and service delivery management has already yielded major policy shifts from the initial interactions with locals and those charged with serving them.
Notable of which are the announcement by the CS that no security personnel will serve in operational areas for more than three months and that chiefs and assistant chiefs whose personal security are under threat to be licensed to own firearms.
He also announced that every Sub-County will have two Principal Chiefs, security personnel approaching retirement to be transferred to a station of their choice where they will retire, and land disputes to be referred to the National Security Council for policy directions among others.
