Murkomen's coup claim is meant to deflect, distract and destroy dissent

Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen,on 26th June 2025 at Downtown in CBD,Nairobi accompanied by Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja and Deputy inspector General Administration Police Gilbert Masengeli.CS Kipchumba inspects Aftermath of GenZ 1st Anniversary demonstration in OTC and Downtown,Nairobi. [Edward Kiplimo,Standard]

Kenya Kwanza is not governing -it is gasping. Gripped by fear and lacking legitimacy, the regime is tearing through the nation’s constitutional order while feeding the public a cocktail of lies and paranoia.
Interior CS Kipchumba Murkomen’s recent remarks branding youth-led protests as a “coup attempt” and “terrorism disguised as dissent” are not just false. They are malicious, calculated, and dangerous lies that if not carefully navigated can change the course of this nation forever.

This isn’t political rhetoric. It’s authoritarian gaslighting. Murkomen’s statement is a grotesque distortion of Aesop’s “Boy Who Cried Wolf,” only this time, the wolves are in power and they’re crying “wolf” to mask the sound of their own repression. Each cry of “terrorism” is not a warning, but a diversion designed to shield the regime’s crimes: The use of live rounds on unarmed citizens, the deployment of the military against civilians, and the deliberate silencing of a grieving, furious nation.