Coup plot claims are serious, act on them

Eric Kiraithe, the Government Spokesman likes to court controversy.

At the height of the 2007/08 post-election violence, then the Police Spokesman, Mr Kiraithe coldly dismissed the killing of a protester in Kisumu captured on KTN as the creation of an enthusiastic media. He was roundly condemned and forced to eat his words. So a few were people surprised when Mr Kiraithe, now the Government Spokesman, last week sensationally claimed that some neighbouring countries were formenting political upheaval in the country. Right-thinking Kenyans would have dismissed his frightening claims as the phantasmagoria of a publicity-seeking Government apparatchik were they not as grave.