Interior Principal Secretary Karanja Kibicho, whose name has featured prominently in the alleged plot to assassinate Deputy President William Ruto, has lodged a complaint with the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), citing harassment by the country’s second most powerful politician.
The PS made the complaint on a day that detectives investigating the assassination claims raided a cybercafe on the junction of Magadi and Lang’ata roads, where it is suspected the alleged letter at the centre of the assassination claims was authored.
Detectives are said to be pursuing the suspects behind the letter.
At the same time, Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mwangi Kiunjuri distanced himself from a group of four colleagues who have been meeting under the umbrella of Mt Kenya Development Group, saying “he is a CS to serve all Kenyans and not a tribal grouping”.
Kibicho, a powerful PS in President Uhuru Kenyatta’s government, complained that Ruto and his allies have been harassing him, sometimes making unsubstantiated remarks against him in public.
According to sources at the DCI, Kibicho claims the DP and his supporters were inciting the public against him, thereby “threatening my life as a public officer”.
“Part of his statement indicates that the bashing and utterances by MPs allied to the DP are making it difficult for him to move freely around the country to execute his duties. He indeed looked disturbed,” said the officer.