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    Challenges Facing Multi-Agency Security Management in Violence Prone West Pokot County, Kenya
    (Reviewed Journal of Social Science & Humanities, 2024-11) Maratani, Nambande Rachel; Omboto, John Onyango
    The North Rift Region of Kenya which includes West Pokot County has for a long-time experienced incidences of insecurity brought about by pastoralist militias. Therefore, the Kenyan government has adopted multi-agency security management approach to control the menace. A study conducted at West Pokot County examined the relationship between the multi-agency approach and security management. The specific objectives of the study were to establish the following: multi-agency institutions’ involvement in security management, multi-agency security command structure and coordination of security formations, challenges faced by multi-agency security personnel, and mechanisms of improving multi-agency security management approaches in the County. The study which was a descriptive survey in design was guided by the Systems Theory, and Securitization Theory. The study participants included security personnel from the Military, National Police Service, National Intelligence Service, Civil Society Organizations, NGOs, Chiefs and their assistant, and the village leaders. The sample size comprised of302 respondents drawn from the Military, National Police Service, and National Intelligence Service. On the challenges faced in multi-agency security management in West Pokot County,72% of the respondents indicated that lack of adequate resources and equipment was a serious problem,75% inadequate technical capacity, and 54% lack of a unified framework in security management which sometimes leads to clashes among the teams. The study recommends that community policing should be brought to the centre of multiagency approaches to security management as this will help in creating synergy between the multiagency security teams and civilians, and prior to commencement of the multiagency security operations, a thorough assessment of the needs of the security teams in terms of equipment and resources should be done in order to ensure that they are motivated enough to carry out the security operation successfully. This paper presents the study findings on multi-agency security institutions’ involvement in West Pokot, the challenges faced by the personnel, and the mechanisms of improving multi-agency security engagement in the county.
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    Multi-Agency Approach and Security Management in West Pokot County, Kenya
    (Kenyatta University, 2025-05) Maratani, Nambande Rachel
    The North rift region of Kenya which includes West Pokot, has been experiencing incidences of insecurity brought about by the pastoralist militia. This prompted the government to adopt a multi-agency approach to security management. This study therefore examined the relationship between multi-agency approach and security management in West Pokot County, Kenya. The specific objectives of the study were; to establish multi-agency institutions’ involvement in security management in West Pokot County, to establish multi-agency security command structure and coordination of security formations in West Pokot County, to establish the challenges faced by multi-agency security personnel in security management in West Pokot County, and to establish mechanisms of improving multi-agency security management approaches in West Pokot County, Kenya. This study was anchored on systems theory and securitization theory of public security. Descriptive survey design was used. The target population was 1201 personnel in the multi-agency security framework and these included: the Military, National Police Service, National Intelligence Service, Civil Society Organizations, NGOs, Chiefs and assistant chiefs and civilians (village leaders). The sample size of the study comprised of 302 respondents drawn from KDF, NIS, and NPS. The participants from civil society organizations, Chiefs and assistant chiefs, NGOs and civilians constituted the key informants and were 59 in total constituting 30 per cent of the population. Data was collected using questionnaires and key informants interview schedules. The study established the Multiagency institutions’ involvement in security management, multiagency security command structure and coordination of security formations and mechanisms of improving multi-agency security management have a significant and positive effect on security management in West Pokot County, Kenya. However, the study found an inverse relationship between the challenges faced by security personnel under the multiagency team and security management. Overall, from the findings, it was apparent that there are deliberate attempts to make the multiagency teams more effective through coordination and through established one chain of command to avoid disunity. Notwithstanding these efforts, it became apparent that there were a number of challenges that multiagency teams face in their operations. The study recommends that community policing should be brought to the centre of multiagency approaches to security management as this will help in creating synergy between the multiagency security teams and civilians. Secondly, the study recommends that prior to the commencement of the multiagency security operations a thorough assessment of the needs of the security teams in terms of equipment and resources should be done in order to ensure that they are motivated enough to carry out the security operation successfully. Finally, the study recommends that there has to be a regular monitoring and evaluation mechanism of the success and challenges of the multiagency security operation. In addition, future studies should focus on analysing the effectiveness of multiagency approaches to security management in other counties in the North Rift region like Baringo and Samburu Counties to further add on the empirical literature.