You failed the President! Gachagua tells NIS boss Noordin Haji

The Star Kenya

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has blasted the National Intelligence Service which he alleges failed to brief the President on time about the impending deadly mass protests witnessed on Tuesday. https://shorturl.at/bwvtO

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00:00The Director-General of the National Intelligence Service, Nurdin Haji, was a junior officer

00:05in the National Intelligence Service before he was appointed as DPP.

00:13When he was appointed to the office of the Director-General, because of inferiority complex,

00:19he chased away all the people who were senior to him when he was in the service.

00:25They are for crippling the capacity of that service and making it dysfunctional.

00:30Three directors were chased away and reassigned to desk jobs in ministries across government.

00:40Thirteen assistant directors, men and women with proven track record of intelligence collection

00:48and analysis, were removed from the National Intelligence Service, leaving a shell under

00:55a clueless Director-General who has no capacity to run the organization.

01:01That is why the security sector was caught off guard by the intensity, the anger of the

01:09Kenyan people, the agitation of the Kenyan people, the lessening of the Kenyan people.

01:19Had Nurdin Haji done his job, we would not be where we are today.

01:25He has no capacity.

01:27He is out of the country most of the time on business trips.

01:32The country is on his own.

01:35My boss, President William Ruto, is exposed.

01:39That he has to back down and admit that he has hurt the people of Kenya.

01:43Yet this matter has been in public domain for the last two months.

01:48I want to say that Nurdin Haji must take responsibility for the deaths that occurred.

01:56He must take responsibility for the mayhem.

02:00He must take responsibility for failing President William Ruto.

02:04He must take responsibility for failing the Government of the Republic of Kenya.

02:08He must take responsibility for failing the Kenyan nation by not doing his job and advising

02:15correctly.

02:16And he must do the honourable thing, not just take responsibility but resign from that office

02:21and allow the President to pick a competent Director-General.

02:26I want to request President William Ruto to consider, as a matter of urgency, to recall

02:31the three Directors who were removed from the service and the 13 Assistant Directors

02:36to come and help reconstruct the service and get sanity back to the National Intelligence

02:41Service to serve the President, the Government and the people of Kenya.

02:48President William Ruto deserves better.

02:51He deserves a Director-General who knows what he is doing.

02:54He deserves a National Intelligence Service that is effective and that can analyse situations

03:00and keep him and the Government informed on what is going on.

03:05It is embarrassing to me as Deputy President that it has taken protests, deaths, mayhem,

03:12destruction for the President to know the truth, yet there is an organisation charged

03:17with that responsibility.

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