Total impunity: Defence PS Mariru ignores court orders to pay soldiers

PS Ministry of Defence Dr Patrick Mariru  before the National Assembly's Committee on Defence , Intelligence and Foreign Relationship chaired by Nelson Koech and Vice Chair Bashir Abdullahi to consider 2025/26 FY Annual Estimates. KDF needs Kshs 2 billion for their recruitment at Continental House, Parliament, Nairobi. May 12th,2025.[Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Defence Principal Secretary Patrick Mariru is a man under siege for failure to comply with three court orders related to former soldiers.

The orders issued by Justice John Chigiti are compensation claims by soldiers who were accused of taking part in the failed 1982 coup, but were later exonerated by the courts.