Matiang’i calls for public inquiry into past extrajudicial killings, vows to reveal tuth
The former Interior CS says he is ready to details of what he knows in a public inquest, adding it has been used and brought up by those in the current government to hit him politically
Former Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i has stated that he is ready to publicly disclose facts of what he knows about extrajudicial killings that happened when he was in office.
Speaking after visiting victims of police brutality during yesterday’s protest to mark the first anniversary of the June 25, 2024 killings at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Matiang’i said he is ready to details of what he knows in a public inquest, adding it has been used and brought up by those in the current government to hit him politically.
“It has always been used for political reasons. Some things need to be said once and for good to clear our names. We are ready, together with my colleagues. This cutting of corners when something happens, we blame on politics and blame others, then tomorrow we behave as if nothing happened, then the following year the pattern repeats… And I propose an open public inquiry because (Eugene) Wamalwa and I have served on the security council before. We can go into the public forum where a magistrate is and put our facts there, and let them put theirs. If we want to move forward, we do not have a future without honesty and focus,” Matiang’i stated.
Matiang’i said he and those who served in the National Security Council are ready to reveal what happened even way before 2023 to clear their names and bring to a stop some matters being used for political reasons.
“And I want to ask my colleagues that let’s be accountable by going forward and explain some of these things that have happened even before 2023, so that we can move forward as a country,” Matiang’i said.
According to the former CS, who has announced he will be gunning for the presidency in 2027, noted that they admitted when mistakes happened, and that’s why some cases are ongoing, because those who were involved were arrested and prosecuted.
“I do not believe we should confine what is currently happening to 2023, 2024. Let us go back and look at those issues, all of them. We admitted that some mistakes happened, and some of the files are open with cases ongoing, like that one for Baby Pendo, and many more. None of us is above the law, and I have never lived above the law even for one minute. Don’t play politics in security matters, so that it is convenient you can say this, and when it is not, you say the other.
Further, Matiang’i stated that the allegations that opposition leaders are funding Gen Zs are vague as security agencies would always act on intelligence and arrest those involved when they have the facts.
According to him, the government is just making allegations with no Intel on what is happening.
His remarks come as Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen claimed that the protests were coordinated and funded with the aim of overthrowing President William Ruto’s government.
