Former Chief Justice David Maraga has recently dared President Ruto to speak up on the recent incidents of police brutality in the country.
The former CJ went on to warn the president that his silence was jeopardising Kenya’s democratic future.
Maraga spoke after an interdenominational church service to commemorate those who passed away during last year’s skirmishes at the All Saints Cathedral on Sunday, June 22.
Maraga questions Ruto over his silence on police brutality matters. Photo: Courtesy.
Maraga did not forget to challenge the Head of State to go out of his way to protect citizens’ rights.
According to Maraga, the prolonged silence by the president raised the risk of the country plunging into a similar situation to that witnessed in Haiti
Maraga’s comment comes as Kenyans are planning another wave of peaceful protests on June 25, to commemorate a year since the anti-Finance bill protests took place.
Last week’s protest that happened on Tuesday, June 17 turned chaotic after a gang of motorcyclists streamed into the Nairobi CBD, armed with crude weapons to disperse the protesters.
Reports alleged that Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja was the one who paid the goon to disrupt the protest.
According to reports,before the protests, Sakaja met with several goon leaders, a sitting Nairobi MP, and an MCA and issued them with funds to sponsor the goons.
However the county boss has since denied the claims, revealing that he was not in town on the day of the said meeting.
