Africa-Press – Kenya. Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka in Nyali, MombasaWiper Patriotic Front (WPF) leader Kalonzo Musyoka is demanding answers over last night’s killings in his home area of Tseikuru, Kitui County.
Kalonzo says its time the Kenya Kwanza administration accounted for what he called a ‘blood’ spill not just in Mwingi but across the country.
The incident happened in Kamari village, Tesikuru sub-county, when over 40 assailants attacked villagers with guns, killing seven.
“This is not merely a tragedy. It is a governance failure of the gravest order,” Kalonzo said in a statement Sunday afternoon.
He said the attack has been described as the deadliest banditry incident in the region in forty years.
“Wazalendo wenzangu, let that sink in. Four decades have passed without carnage of this scale in Tseikuru until yesterday, under the watch of President William Samoei Ruto,” the Wiper leader said, adding, “I demand answers, and I demand them now.”
Kalonzo added, “To President Ruto: how do pastoralists come to possess automatic rifles capable of massacring seven Kenyans within minutes? Who armed them? Who allowed them to move freely across county borders carrying weapons of war?”
The assailants reportedly arrived in two unmarked vehicles.
“This was not a spontaneous act. It was organized, coordinated, and executed with military precision against a civilian population. Where was your intelligence? Where was your security apparatus?”
To Cabinet Secretary for Interior Kipchumba Murkomen, Kalonzo said, “You are constitutionally charged with the security of every Kenyan, from Moyale to Mombasa, from Elgeyo Marakwet to Busia, from Sugoi to Tseikuru.”
Kalonzo said the attackers, believed to be members of a pastoralist community, had earlier encroached illegally into the Mwingi North Game Reserve and their presence was known.
“Their encroachment was reported. The tension was documented. So I ask you directly, CS Murkomen: why were armed men allowed to move freely through Kitui County carrying AK-47 rifles, while the people of Tseikuru had nothing but their bare hands?”
He said this is not the first time Tseikuru has bled and that over the years, thousands of armed pastoralists have migrated into Tseikuru, Kyuso, Malalani, Twambui, and surrounding areas, forcing school closures and displacing residents.
“This regime has consistently failed to respond with any decisive, lasting action.”
He added; “The blood of these seven Kenyans is not only on the hands of their killers. It is also on the hands of a government that has turned away from the suffering of the people of Ukambani.”
He called upon the Inspector General of Police to immediately deploy adequate security personnel to Tseikuru and the wider Mwingi North region.
“I further call for a full criminal investigation, and for the arrest and prosecution of every individual involved.”
Additionally, Kalonzo demanded the immediate disarmament of all illegal firearms across Kitui County and the surrounding region, without fear or favour.
“To the families of the seven Kenyans killed yesterday, mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters cut down in a marketplace in the afternoon sun, I grieve with you and stand with you. I give you my word that their deaths will not be buried under the weight of political convenience.”
The Wiper leader, a former area MP, said the government of Kenya bears one fundamental, non-negotiable duty: to protect the lives of its citizens.
“Yesterday, in Tseikuru, this regime failed spectacularly in that duty.”
