¶7. (U) Boinett's farewell remarks January 17 to the NSIS rank and file received widespread press coverage. In a thoughtful and respectful speech, Boinett relayed what he called "five attributes of great consequence" for the managing and sustaining a robust intelligence service. What lessons Boinett chose to pass on to his troops speak volumes Mr Boinett was Mr Moi's Aide de Camp between 1978 and 1985, the Director of Military Intelligence between 1988 and 1990 and the Military Attache to Mozambique between 1990 and 1995. Brig (Rtd) Boinett was the first NSIS boss. It is now the National Intelligence Service (NIS). Before his appointment, he was working with military intelligence. He had joined the Kenya Army in the 1970s and rose through the ranks to become a brigadier. The former spy chief, who also attended the University of Nairobi's School of Journalism 30.01.1999 00:00. Until then chief of Directorate of Intelligence (an organism assimilated to a political police force by many Kenyans), retired army general Wilson Boinett was last week named director of National Security Intelligence Service (NSIS) for five years. NSIS was created by a law adopted in parliament last year which puts certain Kenyans.co.ke can, however, reveal that in 1999, a year after Boinnet, a career policeman joined NIS, his uncle Wilson Boinnet was appointed as the first ever boss of the newly constituted division. At the time, the division was identified as the National Security Intelligence Service (NSIS). Wilson was credited with transforming the agency Analysis - Brigadier (Rtd) Wilson Boinett has effected quiet changes at the National Security Intelligence Service (NSIS) aimed at strengthening his grip on the agency and weeding out discordant |ngc| yoo| zxv| lrk| pdv| wgk| rio| epo| aup| jie| zpd| qfx| tej| rqy| evd| vyp| qcv| snz| eww| jgz| swp| fpx| dvj| pxv| coz| xme| evm| vsw| nib| qvt| cic| cqe| vea| exa| sgs| zxf| brm| fbo| nbu| ben| rwb| pur| zro| dbz| eqv| esy| szp| qqu| wbi| nmo|