Director of Criminal Investigations George Kinoti’s might be heading home, after President Uhuru Kenyatta admonished him for reopening 2007 Post-election Violence (PEV) files. – By Henry Kimoli
Kinoti faces the real possibility of being sacked, forced to resign, or being redeployed back to the civil service.
His predecessor, Ndegwa Muhoro and Former Deputy IG Joel Kitili were sacked and later deployed to foreign affairs and Ministry of Environment respectively.
President Kenyatta said the PEV 2007 files are closed, buried and will not be reopened.
“Wale ambao wanajaribu kuchimbua makaburi, siwezi kukubaliana na mambo kama haya. Tumetoka huko na mambo haya tumezika katika kaburi ya sahau.. You must always think before you do something.”
[Those people who are trying to unearth the graves, i will not agree with their sentiments. We have already forgotten the atrocities. You must always think before you do something.]
The reopening of the files has seen as an indirect attack on Deputy President William Ruto.
He aired out his sentiments via a tweet, calling the DCI Evil forces.
“The provocative INCITEMENT to ethnic hate/division INTENDED by the ressurection of PEV is an EVIL attempt to resuscitate the TRIBE project DESTROYED by the HUSTLER movements’ REALISATION that poverty&unemployment DELIBERATELY bred by poor leadership is our PROBLEM NOT our tribes.” Ruto tweeted.
