Parliamentary Service Commissioner Patrick Makau has been arrested by police following yesterday’s warning by Interior and National Administration Cabinet Secretary Prof Kithure Kindiki
Makau who is Member of Parliament for Mavoko Constituency was arrested in the wee hours of Thursday 13th July, at his home in Karen, Nairobi.
His house was raided at 4 am, where detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) took him to the directorate’s offices in Kiambu.
Makau’s arrest is in connection with demonstrations that led to the massive destruction of the Nairobi Expressway at the Mlolongo toll station during the anti-government protests called by the opposition to picket against the high cost of living.
Interior Cabinet Secretary Prof. Kithure Kindiki castigated opposition chief Raila Odinga for being the “architect of yesterday’s lawlessness and impunity,” while referring to the former prime minister as the poster boy for violent politics.
“From the 1982 attempted coup-de-tat to the 2007/08 post-election violence, this same politician and his collaborators, then and now, are associated with risky politics that has occasionally plunged our country into near destruction,” said Kindiki.
The Interior CS added that persons who partook in the demonstrations, both directly and indirectly, will be dealt with in accordance with the law.
Several people have been reported dead and others nursing injuries in different health facilities including four in Mlolongo, two in Kitengela, one in Emali in Makueni County and others in Kericho and Kisumu County
However, intelligence reports have allegedly associated finger prints of those who vandalized Expressway barriers to those who set ablaze car at Mlolongo, and stolen sheeps belonging to retired former President Uhuru Kenyatta at Northlands farm
These claims will now leave casting stones to Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, Trade and Investment Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria as well as National Assembly Majority Leader Kimani Ichung’wa over the previous remarks in the public domain
Ichung’wa, on his part, has instead prayed that, Wiper Democratic Party Leader Kalonzo Musyoka not to be among those targeted for impeding arrests by the government