Army General Named as Kenya's New Spy Chief. Newspaper 21 & 22/08/2014.

Major-General Philip Kameru was appointed Director of Military Intelligence at the Kenya Defence Forces in 2006.He is a specialist in intelligence, having started out in 1979 when he was commissioned as an officer. After training as a cadet, he was posted to the Kenya Army Corps of Signals.He was appointed the commander of the unit in 2001.The general holds three Master’s degrees — Master of Science in National Resource Strategy; Master’s in International Relations and Master’s in Security Management.

Major-General Philip Kameru has been named to replace Maj-Gen Michael Gichangi
as the Director-General of National Intelligence Service. He will take office in about a fortnight, if his appointment is approved by the Parliamentary Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations.
Maj-Gen Kameru inherits a spy service criticised by police as providing information that is “too general” to be acted on. But there are deeper problems with Kenya’s security infrastructure,
among them lack of coordination between the various services.

Also, the spy service is non-executive as it is only advisory. Maj-Gen Kameru will have to contend with high public expectations that he will be able to put to an end frequent terror attacks and restore security. The true state of NIS, in terms of skills and work force motivation, is largely unknown to the public as its work is secret.

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