I DID NOT ABSCOND, RUTO FIRED ME OVER MY STAND ON EXTRA JUDICIAL KILLINGS.
The President in a televised interview on the night of 31st
March 2025 at Sagana State lodge stated that I was relieved of my duties for
failing to attend cabinet meetings. I would wish to respond as follows:
It will be recalled that on the 12th of January this year I
issued a press statement in which I condemned the rampant abductions and extra
judicial killings that had been going in the county. In that statement I called
upon government to rise to the occasion and release all those who were held in
captivity and bring to book the perpetrators. Subsequent to this, I was
challenged by the DCI to go and record a statement with the DCIO Killimani
because the matter was allegedly under active investigation.
There have been three cabinet meetings this year, to date,
the first being on 21st of January at Kakamega State Lodge. When I received the
invitation and the agenda for the cabinet meeting I realized that there was no
agenda touching on abductions and extra judicial killings, yet even the
President had on 27th December 2025 at a public rally in Homa Bay committed to
ending abductions. I, therefore, felt in good conscience that it would not be
fitting for me to attend a cabinet meeting that did not address such a
monumental issue that goes to the core of our constitutional basis and the rule
of law. In the circumstances, I decided to write to the President through the
Secretary to the Cabinet, drawing his attention to these issues and requesting
him to excuse my non-attendance for those reasons. The information I have from
the Secretary to the Cabinet is that she delivered my letter dated 20th January
2025 to him.
The next Cabinet meeting was a special one called on 11th
February, 2025 and I received both the invitation and agenda of the meeting.
Like in the first instance, I went through the agenda and found that the issues
of abductions and extra judicial killings were not listed. I wrote to the
President directly, this time, drawing his attention to my earlier letter of
20th January, 2025, and stated that I found it untenable for the highest
decision making body of the state to continue sweeping the matter of abductions
and extra judicial killings under the carpet. I stated that I would not attend
any other cabinet meetings until the issues of abductions and extra judicial
killings were listed as an agenda for discussion, debate and resolution on the
way forward.
The third cabinet meeting took place on the 11th of March at
State House Nairobi and like the other two I had been invited and sent the
agenda for the day. The item was still not on the agenda. I wrote directly to
the President on the 10th March 2025 again referring to the previous two
letters and reiterating my position and I did beseech the President to direct
that the vexing issue of abduction and extra judicial killings in our country
be prioritized and placed on the agenda for future cabinet meetings.
To date the President has never responded to any of my
letters, clearly thereby indicating that the matter of abduction and extra
judicial killings is not worthy of his attention or that of the cabinet. After
each cabinet meeting I regularly received, without failure, the dispatch from
cabinet indicating all the matters that had been discussed and the decisions
thereof but the matter of abductions and extra judicial killings has never been
discussed. I was, therefore, surprised to hear the President on live television
stating that the issue has been discussed in cabinet and has been resolved.
There is no doubt that I was sacked because of my stand on the abductions and extra judicial killings and not because of the so-called absconding of cabinet meetings.
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