Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki has revealed that 312 people who directly or indirectly planned, orchestrated, or financed yesterday’s violent protests and acts of lawlessness, including a Member of Parliament, have been arrested.
Speaking during the official opening of Kiserian Police Station and Olosurutia Sub-Location offices in Kajiado, Kindiki said that the suspects will be charged with various criminal offences.
According to Kindiki, the search for more culprits is still ongoing.
“Violent protests that lead to deaths, injury of civilians and security officers, disruption of daily businesses, destruction of private and public property, and looting are acts of lawlessness that can neither be accepted nor tolerated,” he said.
“There is no relationship between lowering the cost of living and destruction of critical infrastructure built using public funds. That is hooliganism, lawlessness, and a recipe for anarchy,” he added.
Kindiki then directed security officers to enforce the law firmly and decisively and deal with all criminals, including economic saboteurs, looters, and vandals, who are destroying private and private property.
