Senator Onyonka Urges President Ruto To Be Careful On How He Handles Matiang’i’s Case

“I want to really take it to William Ruto and ask him that he must be very careful with how he handles the Matiang’i story,” he said speaking on Citizen TV’s Daybreak show on Monday.

“Reason is this is a Cabinet minister and also there has never been a time in the Kenyan administration from 1963 when a person who was serving in that government, especially in the docket that Matiang’i has been serving has been handled the way he has been.”

According to Onyonka, the recent incidents in the investigation indicate that the state is persecuting the former minister.

He cited an incident in which police officers broke into Matiang’i’s home in Karen, alleging that the officers may have violated a court order.

“He has been attacked and his house broken into, nobody knows whether there were court orders for Matiang’i to be arrested,” he said.

He also denied Inspector General of Police (IG) Japhet Koome’s report that the security detail of former state officials had been reduced, claiming that it had been completely withdrawn.

Matiang’i would not be flying out of the country without the approval of security agencies or the President, according to Onyonka.

“The police IG had said that he scaled down Matiang’i’s security but Matiang’i says all his security was taken and I seem to believe him because that is why he was able to travel out of the country and they don’t even know,” he said.

The former CS was in the UK for two weeks to attend to a ‘urgent private issue,’ and returned to the country on Sunday.

Matiang’i is scheduled to appear at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) offices at 11:00 a.m. today.

The DCI has been questioning him about the alleged police raid on his home in February.

The Ethics and Corruption Commission (EACC) is also looking into the former interior minister’s fortune, which he amassed during his 10-year tenure.