NAIROBI, Kenya – Public Service Cabinet Secretary Justin Muturi has dared leaders calling for his impeachment to make good their threats.
This is after the CS held a press conference urging the government to allow Kenyans to express their views freely without threats.
Speaking at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) offices on Tuesday, after recording a statement about his son’s abduction, Muturi told off the critics and said that he would not engage them.
“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 declared. “If anybody thinks that I don’t know what I am doing, then they are up for a rude shock.”
Public Service Cabinet Secretary Justin Muturi has dared his critics to make their word that they will impeach him. “I will just say bring it on, at my age, I am not the kind of person to respond to some perfunctory statements made by fairly inexperienced politicians,” said…
The controversy escalated on Monday when Aladai MP Marianne Kitany demanded Muturi resign or face impeachment.
Speaking at Mogomben Primary School in Kobujoi ward, Kitany argued that Muturi had many chances to raise the issue in the Cabinet, but he chose to do it in the media, which was disrespectful to the president.
“The highest organ where decisions are made in the Republic of Kenya is called Cabinet. That is where all issues affecting the country are discussed,” Kitany said.
CS Justin Muturi should resign or I will sponsor a censure motion against him – Marianne Kitany
In the press conference on January 12, Muturi criticized how the government handled abductions, especially after the Gen Z-led protests in June 2024, where young Kenyans went missing and others were found dead under mysterious circumstances.
He said that the government has ignored and failed to address these incidents adequately.
“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,” Muturi stated.
