Uasin Gishu Leaders Urge Swift DCI Action on Looters Amid Gen Z Protests
The meeting, held at the Reformed Church of East Africa Hall in Eldoret, was also attended by MPs Janet Sitienei (Turbo), David Kiplagat (Soy), and Julius Rutto (Kesses).
Uasin Gishu Senator Jackson Mandago Addresses Elders at Peace Meeting in Eldoret
Elders and elected leaders in President William Ruto’s home turf of Uasin Gishu are calling on the Directorate of Criminal Investigations to expedite investigations into looters who capitalized on Generation Z protests to destroy national and county government properties worth Ksh 500 million in the region.
Meeting under the Uasin Gishu Peace Forum in Eldoret town, the elders and leaders asserted that there is sufficient CCTV evidence showing the perpetrators in action during last Tuesday’s anti-Finance Bill nationwide protests.
Led by Forum Chairman Rev. Timothy Bamai and Uasin Gishu Senator Jackson Mandago, they defended the hundreds of protesters, emphasizing that they were exercising their democratic right to picket for a worthy cause. However, they condemned a faction of the youths with criminal intent who took advantage of the peaceful protests to loot and destroy property in the town’s central business district.
“We are calling on the police officers attached to the DCI to move with speed and apprehend those behind the mayhem that was caused to national and county government property estimated at Ksh 500 million,” said Bamai.
The rowdy youths stormed the county government’s office, looting all the computers at the Information and Communication Technology office before setting it on fire. Their next target was the Judiciary, where armed with jerrycans of petrol, they set fire to the law court adjacent to the governor’s office, reducing all the files to ashes.
The meeting, held at the Reformed Church of East Africa Hall in Eldoret, was also attended by MPs Janet Sitienei (Turbo), David Kiplagat (Soy), and Julius Rutto (Kesses).
Mandago criticized the church for using their pulpit to call for President Ruto’s resignation over the anti-government protests that led to the loss of lives and property, terming such utterances as dangerous to the unity and stability of the country. He instead advised the clergy to use the pulpit to preach dialogue and encourage the youth to abstain from actions that could plunge the country into anarchy.
“Church leaders should stop elevating us when we come to your churches every Sunday. We are being made more important than even God,” stated Mandago. He urged church leaders to allow politicians to sit with ordinary congregants in their churches instead of elevating them to the high table, terming such actions as ungodly.
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