President Uhuru Kenyatta today launched more than 500 police armored vehicles at Uhuru Park in Nairobi city which are technologically effective to compared security fears.
“Four years ago, there were only 3,155 vehicles which were in a bad state of repair and this lack of effective means of transport hampered effectiveness of the National Police Service in combating terrorism and organised crime,” Uhuru stated.
This comes barely the entrant of 2017 election which is set to be in August, even though the campaign seem to have went off though it is still not allowed constitutional.
“During the first and second phases of the leasing programme, we launched 1,200 and 1,020 assorted vehicles respectively, and with the launch of 500 vehicles, we now have 2,720,” he added.
The vehicles will be tasked to ease the police movement on a crime scene.
“In 2013, the country had only one serviceable helicopter and at the moment we have three that are helping our security forces in the fight against crime. We also expect to have two more and bring the number to seven by July this year,” he said.
