Raila’s chopper attack was pre-planned – Matiang’i
Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i on Tuesday told Parliamentary Committee on Administration and National Security that the stoning of ODM leader Raila Odinga's chopper in Uasin Gishu was premeditated.
The CS said the intensive investigations have shown that there were several meetings held to plan the violence that almost turned ugly.
“It was planned because we have arrested suspects with a lot of money in Ksh50 notes. Clearly, there must have been some choreography behind that because it’s not coincidental that the suspects had so much money in the same denominations, and some of them were distributing it around that particular time,” he said.
The CS, however, said security agencies are on top of things having secured political activities across the country successfully.
He cited Deputy President William Ruto’s incidents in Busia Town and Kondele in Kisumu County as the other few instances of crowd trouble that were effectively dealt with.
“Politicians are spending money to pay youths and move huge groups of people and ferry others at night. This phenomenon of renting crowds and trying to posture for popularity or what you may call pretended populism is what is actually going to hurt us," he added.
