A constitutional storm is brewing over who controls the payroll of the police force, after the Sheria Mtaani lobby group took the Inspector General of Police, Douglas Kanja, to court over an alleged unlawful takeover.
The group, through lawyer Danstan Omari, filed a petition before the High Court in Nairobi seeking urgent orders to stop the IG from managing the payroll. According to the group, the functions of the payroll belong to the National Police Service Commission (NPSC) under Article 246(3) of the Constitution. ''Kenyans are aware, and they saw Parliament order the Inspector General of Police to surrender the payroll.
Sheria Mtaani with Shadrack Mbombo is very aware that Parliament does not have those powers.
They cannot order the Inspector General anywhere.
