Kamket put to task over threats to disrupt peaceful protests

Tiaty Mp William Kamket escorted by DCI officers at Rift Valley Regional Criminal Investigations offices in Nakuru on February 8,2024. [Kipsang Joseph,Standard] Following The Standard's Monday expose on people planning to cause chaos today, Tiaty MP William Kamket was on Tuesday put to task over his remarks to supply goons to counter protesters in Nairobi. Efforts by Kamket to brand himself a "prince of peace" hit a dead end, with National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang'ula ordering that it be expunged from the Hansard. "What was in the papers? Just listen to your Speaker, I read all the papers studiously by 4am. I have read all of them and what they said of you is that you are a warmonger and you are spewing out hate material against people in the country," said Wetangula. Antonellah Kakuko, the woman exposed as being one of the mastermind of the plan to infiltrate today's Gen Z protests, continued with her incendiary messaging. Monday, she was back with more threats: "Those finding it fit to pick personal fights with me based on the Standard Media Group.... to be ready for a bumpy roller coaster ride." "Before you decide to attack me, be informed that I win all my battles unapologetically, benchmark with your cousins Cleo Malala Hon, Justin B Muturi, Gloria Orwoba and Rigathi Gachagua," she posted on social media. Before Monday`s expose, she had posted: "Attempt to occupy it (State House) if you're in hurry for a free ticket to sayuni (heaven)." "Utamiminiwa na kupepetwa bila huruma (you'll be sprayed with bullets)." Joy Masinde Mdivo, the Kenya Power board chairperson, distanced herself from the plan. "I belong to no such WhatsApp group neither have I made such utterances in public or private," she said. She was denying posts carried on a WhatsApp group called Project Deliver, a hate mongering group. In the House, Kamket attacked the media, saying they are the real inciters. "We will ensure everybody demonstrating peacefully will go home peacefully, but anybody who comes to destroy the property of others shall be met with the full force of the law," he said. Last week, the MP publicly announced that he supports the deployment of goons to disrupt protests. Addressing locals in Sigor Constituency, West Pokot County, in a meeting attended by the National Assembly Majority Leader, Kimani Ichung'wah, and President William Ruto's aide, Farouk Kibet, the MP warned that those planning protests would face resistance. He promised to ferry youth from West Pokot to Nairobi to repulse the protesters. In February, the MP made a controversial statement justifying police abduction of those criticising the government. "When you say Ruto must go and you want to use unconstitutional means, what do you expect from the State? You expect what we call reprisals, repercussions," said Kamket on February 7 in Tiaty. The legislator has declared that leaders would do whatever it takes to ensure President Ruto secures a second term. "I come from the county of 24 years. We know how to manufacture a President to survive 24 years. If they joke, we can even tell you (President Ruto) to extend," he said. The MP was a fierce critic of Ruto before the 2022 elections. In March, 2019, Kamket asked Ruto, then Deputy President, to resign if he was not content with President Uhuru Kenyatta's fight against corruption. But the tune changed after Ruto won. In September, 2022, a photo of Kamket shaking hands with President Ruto emerged. The MP is no stranger to controversy. In 2014, he was arrested after the murder police officers in Kapedo following an ambush by bandits. In January 2021, Kamket was grilled by detectives over insecurity, while in September the same year, a court in Nakuru barred him from entering his constituency.

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