Police Bosses to Head University Security Operations.

Interior Cabinet Secretary (CS) Joseph Nkaissery has announced a new strategy set to improve security in universities and secondary schools.

Speaking in Thika during Mount Kenya University's 10th graduation ceremony, Nkaissery stated that senior police officers would now be deployed to head security operations in universities.

According to the CS, the new programme in collaboration with the Ministry of Education would see every university assigned one police boss to oversee its security.

Additionally, the same arrangement would be extended to secondary schools where security will be manned by Officers Commanding Station (OCS).

"We agreed with the Minister for Education on having security officers attached to all learning institutions to specifically monitor security issues,” indicated Nkaissery.

The Interior CS asserted that the new measures were aimed at ending radicalisation in learning institutions and also stop rampant student unrest's witnessed year in year out.

"We know that radicalisation is taking place mostly in universities, so we want to put experts who will be able to help get the real root causes of the problem," added Nkaissery.

In the past, terrorist groups have targeted learning institutions especially universities with several students being arrested on suspicion of being affiliated with such outlawed sects.

Recently, a law student at Kabarak University was nabbed on his way to reportedly join Al Shabaab. Earlier in the year, a student at the University of Nairobi was arrested at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport while allegedly travelling to Libya to join ISIS.