Bring it on! - CS Muturi scoffs at impeachment threats

Public Service Cabinet Secretary Justine Muturi on Tuesday laughed off threats by a section of politicians allied to President William Ruto to have him impeached.

Muturi spoke on Tuesday after recording a statement with the Directorate of Criminal Investigations at Kilimani Police Station following his recent statement castigating cases of abductions in the country.

He had on Sunday asked the government to allow Kenyans to express themselves freely and not be intimidated or abducted.

Muturi's statement elicited mixed reactions from a section of leaders who called for his resignation. He, after recording a statement, with the detectives said he would not engage those making claims.

“I will just say, bring it on. At my age, I am not the kind of person to respond to some of the statements. Some of it is perfunctory statements made by fairly inexperienced politicians, they are not worth my response,” CS Muturi said.

“If anybody thinks that I don’t know what I am doing, then they are up for a rude shock.”

Muturi was recording a statement of his son’s alleged abduction.

On January 12, CS Muturi criticised the government over alleged abductions.

He said young Kenyans have gone missing since the Gen Z-driven June 2024 protests and in some instances, ended up dead under unexplained circumstances.

The former AG said it was wrong for the government to claim that it was not involved in the abductions but, on the other hand, failed to explain who was behind the abductions.

“The cardinal duty of the state and the government is to protect the lives and livelihood of its citizens and cannot claim to be unaware of such serious breaches of the rights of Kenyans to live free from wrongful confinement and the violation of their inalienable right to life,” he said.

On Monday, Aldai MP Marianne Kitany called for the resignation of Muturi or face impeachment.

Speaking in Mogomben Primary School, Kobujoi ward, Kitany said Muturi’s recent remarks over abductions were uncalled for.

She said the CS has had many chances to raise the issue in Cabinet but he chose to do it in the media.

The lawmaker termed the move as disrespect to President William Ruto and the country’s highest decision-making body; the Cabinet.

“The highest organ where decisions are made in the republic of Kenya is called cabinet and only the President, his deputy, the Attorney General and all Cabinet Secretaries no other Kenyan sits in Cabinet. That is where all issues affecting the country are discussed," she said.

“While you were the Attorney General why didn’t you go to the Cabinet and ask about your son and all Kenyan children? If you a member of the Cabinet cannot say it before the President what do you want an ordinary Kenyan to do? That is disrespecting our President and the Cabinet.”