Unknown side of DCI boss George Kinoti
Kenya’s top criminal cop, Directorate of Criminal Investigations head, George Kinoti, has lived at a police line since 2003 when he was appointed as a personal assistant to then CID Director, Daniel Ndung’u.
When he took over the mantle of DCI Chief in 2018, the expectations were that like his predecessors, he would move out to a bigger house befitting his new status.
To the surprise of many, he did not. Kinoti says it has something to do with his upbringing.
“When I remembered Major’s counsel, I made a decision never to shift from the house that was allocated to me as a junior officer, but to instead stay with my fellow officers,” says Kinoti.
He says he first met his parents-in-law in 1990. He was still a university student, a troubled young man, heavily weighed down by his status and that of his family because he thought it to be of low status. However, he says, this was to change when he got married.
He lived with his three other siblings and his mother. He never knew or saw his father until decades later, courtesy of his in-laws who urged him to go and look for him.
Because of this, the DCI boss laments he suffered low self-esteem because he came from a poor background.
