Correspondent
Interior PS Karanja Kibicho has told Deputy President William Ruto that senior State officers participating in election campaigns are doing exactly what it happened in 2017, when Ruto was deeply involved in government operations.
Kibicho said he’s wondering why Ruto and his team are complaining of government officers’ involvement in the 2022 electoral process, yet in 2017 the DP was silent when the then-opposition outfit, NASA, raised similar complaints.
Kibicho, however, says unlike the common perception that Ruto’s Kenya Kwanza team has, he (Kibicho) and other State officers are not influencing voters to cast their ballot a certain way, but are only sensitising them to embrace peace in the August 9 General Election.
“The involvement of Cabinet Secretaries and Principal Secretaries in appealing for peace and turning out in large numbers to vote is a cut and paste of the previous election seasons, including 2017 in which the deputy president was the lead officer,” Kibicho said during an interview on Kameme FM on Wednesday, August 3.
“We have provided adequate security to all the presidential candidates and their running mates,” Kibicho said
“We have established that the Turkana attacks were not politically-motivated,” he said, adding that a search for the suspects is ongoing.
“As we approach the August 9 elections, I urge leaders to exercise restraint in their utterances to avoid provoking tensions and negative ethnicity,” said Kibicho.
