The Kenyan private security sector faces total destruction because the government intends to implement a new policy that mandates complete replacement of private security personnel at government sites with National Youth Service members.
Internal Security and National Administration PS Raymond Omollo announced that the state will reclaim its gates, thereby creating major disturbances within the multibillion-shilling private security industry.
The current directive already in its early implementation phase will remove thousands of civilian security personnel from government ministries and departments and agencies to establish a government-backed security force that will include NYS paramilitary-trained personnel.
The decision will create economic destruction, which private security companies will experience as its result. The government contracts have sustained these companies for multiple decades because they sustained a workforce that exceeds 100000 Kenyans. The government has started to nationalize infrastructure security when it decided to use NYS for its security operations, which critics describe as a predatory takeover of a working private market.
The government presents this program as a youth employment strategy, while actual implementation results in a situation that benefits no participant. The government will terminate a civilian guard who supports his entire family when one NYS graduate acquires a governmental position. Industry insiders expect that this situation will lead to increased criminal activity because thousands of trained security personnel from the private sector will experience economic exclusion.
Security analysts raise alarms about the civil access situation, which they see as a process of “militarization.” The government offices now operate as high-security zones because NYS staff members who finished their paramilitary training replace the civilian guards.
The Private Security Regulatory Authority (PSRA) finds itself in a dangerous situation because the Ministry of Interior accelerates security deployment while the agency must protect its industry regulatory responsibilities against government attempts to take control.
The state has issued an unambiguous statement that declares that the service now controls access to Kenya’s sovereign assets since this responsibility will no longer be available for purchase by private bidders.
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