Interior CS Murkomen issues apology over teargassing of journalists and Butere Girls
Interior CS Murkomen issues apology over teargassing of journalists and Butere Girls
Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has apologized for the teargassing of journalists who were covering the drama revolving around the Butere Girls play in Nakuru on Wednesday, April 9.
Speaking in Lamu County on Thursday, April 10, the CS said that the incident would be investigated internally to establish the facts surrounding the incident.
“There was an unfortunate situation where a tear gas hit a journalist and it is regrettable. We apologize. It is not our intention to throw tear gas on our journalists,” the CS apologized.
On the other hand, he maintained that the government was not keen on frustrating Butere Girls in staging their play.
While maintaining that the students had the right to speak their minds, he wondered why former UDA SG Cleophas Malala was the writer of the play.
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He expressed that the writing of the play ought to have been done by teachers of other non-political actors.
“Ask yourself, as a Kenyan, how is it possible that we have reached a level where a politician has become the writer of a play for students. He is using the students for politics,” he expressed.
“Even if you look down upon the government, we know that these schools have teachers. Let politicians leave the teachers do their work and leave students out of our politics.”
On his part, Malala took issue with the government, wondering why the state had issues with his playwriting, yet he had been doing it for many years.
The former UDA SG revealed that he had written over 80 plays for different schools.
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