Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen on Thursday, February 13, proposed bringing in National Intelligence Service (NIS) officers to universities in the country to curb drug and alcohol abuse. Speaking during the launch of the report on the Status of Drug and Substance Abuse in Universities in Kenya by the National Authority for the Campaign against Drug and Alcohol Abuse (NACADA), the CS seemingly intimated that this was a practice in the past and would assist in bringing an end to the menace. "You know, in the past, we were told, I don't know, we used to be told that some of the students we saw at the university were not students.
We used to be told they were police officers, intelligence officers, they were busy," he stated. "Why don't we go back there IG (Kanja) to make sure that we have intelligence officers working within the university, with the university students, and with police officers?
This will help us get proper intelligence and proper intervention in dealing with drugs and drug abuse," Murkomen averred.
National Intelligence Service Director General Noordin Haji during his swearing in as the new NIS boss on Wednesday, June 14, 2023.
