Former Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i has challenged the government to arrest those who paid goons to disrupt the recent protests.
Speaking in Bungoma County on Friday, July 4, Matiang'i expressed that there was no way the government could fail to have information on those who sponsored the goons.
He questioned why the authorities had yet to make arrests, yet they had claimed that the opposition leaders were behind the chaos witnessed last week.
"Government employees cannot come out and say that there are people who are more powerful than them. Is there anyone who is more powerful than the government?
"I want to advise them to listen to what they are saying. Are they telling us that they are irredimably incompetent, that they do not know who is doing these things? Let them arrest these people and take them to court," he posed.
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Meanwhile, he asked the government to take its work on security seriously instead of crafting lies to taint the names of the opposition leaders.
"We do not have any means to pay goons. When it comes to security and the stability of the country, it touches on all of us," the former Interior Minister asserted.
"If people are paying goons, the government must know them. They cannot now say that the opposition paid them. Why haven't you arrested them? These are lies."
After the June 25 protests, allies of President William Ruto alleged that leaders within the opposition sponsored goons to cause chaos and mayhem.
According to Murkomen, the events were an attempt to overthrow the Ruto administration from power.
"It was terrorism disguised as dissent. There was no peaceful demonstration. It was riots, chaos, and anarchy, and therefore we condemn the criminal anarchists in the name of peaceful demonstrations, who unleashed a wave of violence, looting, sexual assault, and destruction upon our people," the CS stated during an address to the nation.
