Belgut MP Nelson Koech has said that the Cabinet Secretary for Public Service Justin Muturi has dared President William Ruto and that he will soon be fired from the cabinet.
Speaking during a morning interview on Monday, February 3, 2025, Koech, who chairs the departmental committee on defence, intelligence and foreign relations, said that Muturi was on his way out.
“CS Muturi is daring the president to fire him. He should have resigned if he doesn’t want to work with this government. He has called for it and you will see it in a week or two, CS Muturi will be home,” Koech observed.
“He has pinched the president’s nose and he is a man going home.”
The remarks came after CS Muturi, while speaking to journalists at the Nairobi Funeral Home on Friday, January 31, 2025, voiced concerns at the alarming rate of the disappearance of young people in the country only to turn up dead.
“The buck stops with you, Mr President; Because you are the president of Kenya, and commander in chief of the defence forces therefore I am calling upon the President to take immediate action to end these abductions, as promised,” Muturi said.
Commission of inquiry
“There must also be an open inquiry into the killings to uncover how these atrocities have been happening. We cannot allow this to become normal.”
The CS, whose son was previously abducted and later released, observed that the government should form a commission of inquiry to determine the root cause of the abductions. He equally observed that this was a grave matter which should be done with urgency.
“I am calling upon the President to order an immediate end to these abductions and killings. You promised Kenyans that this would never happen. We must establish an open inquiry to examine how these things have been happening. We cannot normalize this,” Muturi said.
Wetang’ula weighs in
His sentiments were echoed by National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang’ula who equally demanded that the security apparatus in the country should investigate and identify the culprits behind abductions.
“The office of the DCI, Office of DPP and internal security organs to investigate thoroughly and come to the root cause of who is kidnapping people and later they are found dead,” Wetang’ula said.
“The police say they are not the ones doing it. We want them to investigate and tell Kenyans who are these criminal elements in our midst who are unlawfully arresting people, causing their disappearance and eventually they are found dead.”
