We have evidence DP Gachagua allies financed Gen Z protests; CS Kindiki
Interior CS Kithure Kindiki now says the Directorate of Criminal Investigations has evidence showing high-profile individuals allied to DP Gachagua facilitated Gen Z protests
Interior CS Kithure Kindiki now says the Directorate of Criminal Investigations has evidence showing high-profile individuals allied to DP Gachagua facilitated Gen Z protests.
Speaking when he appeared before the National Assembly Committee on Administration and Internal Security, Kindiki said the DCI will soon charge these persons.
The CS insisted that the government would not allow the mayhem experienced in June and July to occur again.
“I am informed by DCI that high-level prosecutions will ensue anytime from now, including political leaders who financed protests; and we have evidence, they financed people to loot shops, to kill Kenyans, expose them to danger. We cannot continence the kind of mayhem we saw in July and June for whatever reason.
“And that’s why I’ve said this job is a very unpopular job. We will do it. We are going to prosecute high-level people who assisted criminals to harm other people, to destroy infrastructure and they have even made an attempt to actually bring down such a serious institution like Parliament to the people of Kenya,” Kindiki said.
His remarks come after DCI recommended to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution (ODPP) that politicians allied to Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua be charged with various offences relating to the recent anti-government protests.
They had all been grilled by the DCI.
As a result, the DCI has recommended that some of them be charged with soliciting or inciting others to commit offences contrary to section 391 of the Penal Code.
The two MPs and the DP’s aide will face the charge of conspiracy to commit a felony contrary to section 393 of the Penal Code if the ODPP agrees with the recommendations.
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One of the MPs will face additional charges of money laundering.
“Efforts are being made to obtain all financial data FRC, Safaricom and banks where financial transactions were carried out,” Director of Investigations at the DCI headquarters Abdalla Komesha said in a letter to the ODPP dated September 24.
Gachagua has however expressed reservation over the move by the DCI to propose charges against MPs allied to him and his aides.
In a statement hours after it emerged that the DCI had written to the DPP suggesting the two MPs, his two advisors and three other members of his staff be charged, Gachagua termed the plot political.
“The use of the criminal justice system to manage politics is an outdated political strategy that was used in the past,” he said.
“I am embarrassed that we are back to where we were. Harassment of my Office staff and Members of Parliament perceived to be close to me, has been going on for the last two months,” he said.
The second in command claimed that the proposal by DCI seeks to soil his name and that of his office in an attempt to link him to the June protest.
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