Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has told former Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi and allies to seek divine intervention for nightmares to stop.
Gachagua’s remarks came following Matiangi’s recent claim that police officers raided his home in Karen to arrest him.
“Do not mind those pretending that they have been arrested. These people are hallucinating and nightmares; they cannot sleep because they used police to mistreat people. When they see an officer, they get nightmares. Forget about them,” Gachagua said.
Moreover, former Interior CS Matiang’i has been accused of running a ministry that unfairly targeted political leaders including the current president Ruto who was a deputy at the time and Gachagua who was an MP.
Likewise, it is also during Matiangi’s tenure that several bodies were retrieved from River Yala and forests around the country, following alleged extrajudicial killings.
“The prayers of Widows, orphaned children, those who were murdered at the Yala River, those who were taken at Arberdares, those who were shot dead by police officers, that is what is haunting them they cannot sleep,” the DP said at a prayer service in Nakuru on Sunday.
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“We want to tell them to come to church to be saved. So that they stop having nightmares that they are being followed by police officers,” Gachagua added.
In addition, the second in command stated that the current police service is professional, apolitical and has no time to conduct what he described as “nonsense.”
According to DP Gachagua, the past injustices are haunting the former Interior CS.
The deputy president further highlighted the extrajudicial killings and arbitrary arrest of citizens during the past regime as one of the reasons why Matiangi and his allies were in a panic.
At the same time, he urged the media to conduct their due diligence before reporting on any incident to avoid falling victim to fake news.