Thursday, June 27, 2024 - Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has attacked National Intelligence Service (NIS) boss, Noordin Haji, accusing him of failing to provide President William Ruto with accurate intelligence in regards to the ongoing protests by Gen Z.
Speaking on Wednesday at his residence in
Mombasa, Gachagua claimed the NIS boss failed to inform the President about the
magnitude of the protests in time to avert the unprecedented carnage and loss
of lives.
“And I sympathise with my boss President
William Ruto because this information was not available to him,” Gachagua said.
The DP said following this very critical
oversight, Haji should do the most honourable thing and resign.
“We have a dysfunctional National Intelligence
Service that has exposed the President, the government and the people of
Kenya," he claimed.
"Had the National Intelligence Service briefed the President two months ago about how the people feel about the Finance Bill, 2024, so many Kenyans would not have died, property would not have been destroyed, offices would not have been destroyed.
"There would have
been no mayhem, but they slept on the job.”
Gachagua said it had to take nationwide
protests for the president to know the truth about how people felt about the
proposed new taxes in the Bill "yet there is an organisation paid for by
the public to brief the President and the government about the feeling of the
Kenyan people".
The DP further claimed that senior National
Police Service officers told him in confidence that they did not have prior
intelligence about the magnitude of the protests organised largely by Gen Z.
The Kenyan DAILY POST
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