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Turkana leaders in Isiolo demand improved welfare and insurance cover for National Police Reservists. [File, Standard]
Turkana Community leaders in Isiolo County have slammed the Government of Kenya for continued mistreatment of National Police Reservists (NPR officers) who are often on the frontline battling bandits, only to end up struggling to meet medical expenses when injured, while their families suffer huge blows whenever they are killed on the line of duty.
Speaking in Ngaremara area of Isiolo during the burial ceremony of Henry Longor Narukapel, a NPR officer who was shot dead last week in Isiolo during a mission to track and recover stolen livestock, the leaders led by Isiolo deputy governor Dr James Lowasa faulted the Government of Kenya, accusing them of failure to adequately look into the welfare of the frontline officers, in the same manner that they cater for the welfare of National Police Service officers.
Dr Lowasa argued that it was disheartening to note that NPR officers who suffer gunshot wounds sell their stock to cater for medical expenses, while families of those killed in the line of duty are never compensated.
