Former president Uhuru Kenyatta’s security has significantly been scaled down in what the government operatives say is a rationalization of personnel.
A local daily has established a senior police officer who was leading the security team has been recalled and replaced with one of a lower rank.
“From 96 elite officers attached to him, he has been left with 25, while the former First Lady has five,” a source told the Nation.
Sources have also said that some of President Uhuru’s family members have had their security withdrawn.
As a former president, his mother, Mama Ngina, and former First Lady and his wife, Margaret, are entitled to security.
Uhuru has a military officer- a colonel- seconded to him as an ADC. However, he does not wear his uniform as it was when he was in office.
The Presidential Retirement Benefits Act 2013 says the former president is entitled to at least six bodyguards and security in both urban and rural homes on a need basis as determined by the ministry of interior from time to time.
However, the same law allows the state to deprive him of the benefits if Parliament passes a resolution.
