Nairobi Police Boss Promoted in Top-Level Changes
Yakub's promotion to the SAIG means that he will move to a different office and another cop will replace him as the Nairobi County Police Boss.
Marvin Chege 
Nairobi Police boss Rashid Yakub has been promoted to the position of Senior Assistant Inspector General of Police (SAIG) in at least 20 changes announced by Inspector General of Police Hilary Mutyambai.
Yakub's promotion to the SAIG means that he will move to a different office and another cop will replace him as the Nairobi County Police Boss.
The changes were approved by the National Police Service Commission on Monday, March 8.
Also promoted to the same rank are IG Mutyambai's principal assistant Gideon Munga Nyale, deputy director of National Air Support Department (NASD) Rodgers Mbithi, and the director of the Internal Affairs Unit Mohamed Amin.
Head of the Border Patrol Unit College in Kanyonyo, Abdulahi Aden, Railways Police Commandant Peter Ndung’u, head of logistics at Administration Police and former spokesman Masood Mwinyi and director of personnel at Kenya Police headquarters Boniface Maingi were also promoted.
Several regional commanders were also promoted to the coveted rank of Assistant Inspector General of Police.
Head of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) in Nairobi Bernard Nyakwaka, Nyanza regional police commander Karanja Muiruri, Central’s Augustine Nthumbi, and DCI’s deputy director of investigations bureau Carey Nyawinda were upgraded to their new positions.
The service commanders were operating in an acting capacity, which has affected normal operations at the police force as the full list of changes is expected to be shared later by the National Police Service.
Two weeks ago, Mutyambai ordered the reshuffle of dozens of Ward Commanders popularly known as Officers Commanding Station (OCS) owing to complaints that some of them had overstayed at their stations.
To further strengthen police command at the grassroots, all chiefs' camps, which were initially manned by APs, were converted into police posts. Each of the wards across the country now has a police station under the command of a ward police commander, who replaced the former OCS.
