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Lawyers: Murkomen is unfit to hold office over shooting orders

Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen during a security meeting at Kambi Samaki in Baringo County, on May 2, 2025  [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen woes over his tongue continue to deepen with a case being filed on Monday to have him declared unfit to hold office.

In the case, the CS is quoted telling a public baraza in Kikuyu Town, Kiambu County, that the police should shoot anyone who comes near a police station and to defend themselves, and that the government would defend any officer who was called to account.

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