Matiang’i Explodes After Being Cornered About His Murder Of Kenyans Including Children from 2017 to 2022

Matiang’i calls for public inquest into His extrajudicial killings

Fred Matiang’i running to be the president of Kenya in 2027 has been blown to pieces and is now a lump of ash floating in the air and nobody knows where it will land.

His friends old and new enthusiastic groupies driven by tribe or his stolen wealth must be praying he did not resign from his job in Washington DC and if he did he will join the long list of millions of jobless Kenyans.

Matiang’i gave a confession of his criminal activities including murder and extra judicial killings in a massive scale during his tenure as Uhuru Kenyatta’s Interior CS. Matiang’i was addressing the media after the United Opposition which included the Wiper man Kalonzo Musyoka and Eugene Wamalwa.

Matiang’i and other opposition leaders had visited Kenyatta National Hospital to meet the victims of police violence on June 25, 2025 demonstrations and their families.

“Whether we start with Chris Msando, we come to Jacob Juma, we come to Kipyegon Kenei, we come to Baby Pendo, River Yala and everything else. Let these things be investigated by an open public inquest,” Matiang’i declared publicly speaking about his record as Interior CS.

This was a terrible day for Kalonzo Musyoka who on the remembrance day two days ago was laying a wreath for the victims of Ruto killings on June 25, 2024 because now the question is when is Kalonzo laying the wreath for the very many people Matiang’i murdered including his victims in River Yala where dead bodies were dumped.

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This was also a nightmare for Kalonzo because they had visited the victims of gunshots from the police on June 25, 2025 and obviously Kalonzo was looking for a huge opportunity to rave about what happened on that day and make himself as one of the leaders of the United Opposition who was getting ready for a big fight for human rights in Kenya.

Instead of that Kalonzo was listening to one of his partners in the United Opposition literally confessing to having committed same crimes as William Ruto is doing now or even worse. Poor Steve, what is next. Is the United Opposition going to throw Matiang’i out or just hang onto that self confessed killer.

Matiang’i called for a public inquest into the unresolved killings and disappearances in Kenya, declaring his readiness to face questions over controversial killings he is accused of having committed as a Interior CS.

“Some of these matters are raised, and we just go round in circles. We cannot have government by blogging — let’s address the real issues affecting our people,” he said.

Referencing the killings that occurred during the June 25, 2024, protests, Matiang’i said the country needed to hold an open inquiry to understand what led to the storming of Parliament.

“We’ve swept too much under the carpet. It’s time to lift that carpet and be honest about how we need to live as a country,” he said.

Reflecting on past incidents during his time as Interior CS, Matiang’i acknowledged that the government then admitted mistakes in handling deadly protests and initiated reforms to address them.

“When things happened in Kisumu involving Baby Pendo and in Kianjokoma with the two brothers, there was an admission by us, as officials in government, that mistakes were made. That’s where the process began, and we tasked the relevant institutions to do their job and ensure those found culpable were held accountable,” he said.

“There are many stories around these incidents that must be addressed openly and honestly. Let us not continue sweeping things under the carpet.”

Kenya’s River Yala: Mystery and heartbreak of the dead bodies

Here is the BBC report on the dumped bodies as of January 21, 2022

“I have just seen my brother’s face. Our faces are alike, even the mouth. I have also seen the legs, those are my brother’s. I have no doubt it’s him.”

A distressed Irene Waheto has just stepped out of the hospital mortuary in Yala, western Kenya.

At least 19 unclaimed bodies have been waiting for identification. They were retrieved over the past two years from the nearby River Yala in different stages of decomposition.

Ms Waheto was making frantic calls to her family in Nyeri, a town nearly 300km to the east.

“It is Ndirangu, I am sure it is him,” she cries down the phone.

But how his body ended up in a river so far from home is not clear.

Ms Waheto tells me her brother went missing in November last year while travelling from the capital, Nairobi, to Nakuru – but that is nearly 200km from where his body was found.

Since then her family has been searching police stations and mortuaries near the two cities – but not in this more remote part of western Kenya.

The thought of looking here came when on Monday, two human rights activists said that bodies that had been found in the River Yala in recent months were still in the mortuary.

But there he was.

She is not the only person searching for a missing relative and not the only one baffled by how their body ended up in Yala.

Ben Chepkwony travelled over 100km looking for his brother, Philemon, who he says went missing last month somewhere on the road between Nairobi and Nakuru.

His remains were also discovered among the bodies retrieved from the River Yala, and Mr Chepkwony is inconsolable.

“I don’t know who is killing these people and dropping them here,” he says with long pauses and deep breaths between the sentences.

“This is not a democratic Kenya we wish to live in. I am so frustrated with this country. And I will not accept it at all.”

Fred Matiang’i also told the media at KNH that he is ready to have an inquest on the murder of Baby Pendo, a seven year old child killed when her mother was holding her in front of her house having been teargassed in their own house and the police hit the kid on the head and she was out right in her mom’s hands.

According to the latest BBC report on the case, eight years after their baby daughter was killed during a brutal midnight operation by police in Kenya at a time of post-election tension, Joseph Oloo Abanja and Lensa Achieng are still raw with emotion as the case against the alleged officers involved is always delayed and postponed.

His wife came out of the house holding Samantha, who was having difficulty breathing because of the tear gas, and was not spared either.

“They went ahead beating me with clubs while I was holding my daughter,” Ms Achieng says.

The next thing she felt was her daughter holding her tight “as if she was in pain”.

“I turned her and what was coming outside her mouth? It was foam.”

Their quest for justice has been long and frustrating, like that of dozens of others caught up in the post-election violence.

Right now Fred Matiang’i is ready to face a public inquest on this little kid’s murder and he made that public today at KNH to the Kenyan press.

Then there is the story of our sisters and daughters under the banner “Women For Matiang’i” who rightfully condemned rape of women during police attacking demonstrators.

Women for Matiang’i condemn sexual violence during protests

The organisation urged all political leaders, civil society actors, and Kenyan citizens to unite in condemning sexual violence.

Women for Matiang’i has strongly condemned the sexual violence committed against women and girls during the June 25 maandamano protests, calling the attacks criminal and a grave violation of human dignity and constitutional rights.

Sexual Violence against Women and Girls after Kenya’s 2017 Elections was at the highest level ever and at that it was Fred Matiang’i in charge of the rapist police officers.

My simple request for these sisters and daughters of our land is to follow what Matiang’i as Interior CS did in Mathare where he sent a huge number of policemen to go into the homes and shacks where people lived in Mathare. Matiang’i specifically wanted them to go in the homes and not in the streets because he claimed the protestors were hiding there and the same thing happened in Kisuumu.

Here is one case from a victim of Matiangi’ in 2017

They were three men dressed in spotted green uniforms. Two had guns and one a baton. The one with the baton started touching my breasts. He also touched my private parts. I tried to run away, but I fell at the door. He grabbed me and dragged me back into the house. I was terrified, I thought he would kill me. I was fighting him, but he kicked me, slapped me hard on the face, and raped me as the others were watching. My 18-year-old daughter saw what happened.-

Mary Awiti, Kisumu, October 2, 2017

Human Rights Watch research confirmed that there was widespread sexual violence against women and girls, in terms of numbers and locations. They documented cases of rape (including vaginal and anal rape), attempted rape, rape with an object, unwanted sexual touching, forced nudity, and beatings on genitals, by members of Kenya’s security forces.

So I urge the “Women for Matiang’i” group to look into the man’s record as CS in 2017 and ask him to be honest with you as his innocent supporters about the reported rape cases during his work with President Uhuru in August 2017 after the elections followed with fights in the streets between Matiang’i’s policemen/army staff and the demonstrators.

Looking at the whole picture regarding Matiang’i’s statement at KNH amid growing public pressure and outrage over deadly police crackdowns one would say his political career that he was just about to start is over and dead in the water.

“Let us go and explain some of these things that have happened even before 2023 so that we can now move forward together as a country when all facts and everything have been heard and resolved, and we can deal with the unresolved matters that have not been conclusively investigated,” he explained.

The former minister urged the state to allow full disclosure and accountability for all the unresolved killings that have stained Kenya’s recent political history.

He insisted that addressing these cases publicly was the only way to end the cycle of speculation, fear and blame.

“So I ask my colleagues that now let us be true to the course that we are following. Let these things be dealt with publicly, and I pray. We should never have a recurrence of this, so we should spend the time now asking the question, how are we going to stop another recurrence of this?” the former Interior CS added.

“Let all these cases be investigated through an open public inquest so we can move forward, explain, and face the public on these matters.”

The former powerful CS lamented that some of the issues being raised were now being circulated on social media with the aim of tarnishing reputations.

“Some of these matters are raised, and we just go round in circles. We cannot have government by blogging — let’s address the real issues affecting our people,” he said.

Referencing the killings that occurred during the June 25, 2024, protests, Matiang’i said the country needed to hold an open inquiry to understand what led to the storming of Parliament.

“We’ve swept too much under the carpet. It’s time to lift that carpet and be honest about how we need to live as a country,” he said.

Reflecting on past incidents during his time as Interior CS, Matiang’i acknowledged that the government then admitted mistakes in handling deadly protests and initiated reforms to address them.

“When things happened in Kisumu involving Baby Pendo and in Kianjokoma with the two brothers, there was an admission by us, as officials in government, that mistakes were made. That’s where the process began, and we tasked the relevant institutions to do their job and ensure those found culpable were held accountable,” he said.

“There are many stories around these incidents that must be addressed openly and honestly. Let us not continue sweeping things under the carpet.”

Here is our story on Fred Matiang’i published three weeks ago:

Will Matiang’i Address Baby Pendo Murder Under Him As Interior Minister and Other Abuses During His Watch?

As all these was rolling out of Matiang’i’s mouth he knew that his fellow member of the United Opposition, Rigathi Gachagua, was already mad with him about his record of human rights abuses during his tenure as Interior CS and asked him to go to church after Matiang’i claimed that police officers came to arrest him and that was under Gachagua’s watch who went nuts attacking Matiangi. .

Gachagua to Matiangi: stop having nightmares, just go to church

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Here is Gachagua’s statement back at that time when he was the DP and Matiang’i said something about police harassment under him:

Kenya, Feb 12-Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has told former Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi to stop having nightmares.

He was responding to Matiangi’s recent claim that police had raided his home in Karen to arrest him.

“Do not mind those pretending that they have been arrested. These people are having hallucinations and nightmares; they cannot sleep because they used police to mistreat people. When they see an officer, they get nightmares. Forget about them,” Gachagua said at a prayer service in Nakuru on Sunday.

Matiangi who is among officials in former president Uhuru Kenyatta’s regime was accused of running a ministry that unfairly targeted political leaders including the current president William Ruto who was a deputy at the time and Gachagua who was an MP.

Several other leaders who supported Ruto were also targetted with arrests and corruption cases, most of which are now collapsing for lack of evidence.

It is also under Matiangi’s watch that several bodies were retrieved from River Yala and forests around the country, following alleged extrajudicial killings.

“The prayers of Widows, orphaned children, those who were murdered at the Yala River, those who were taken at Arberdares, those who were shot dead by police officers, that is what is haunting them they cannot sleep,” Gachagua said.

He added that Matiangi and his allies should seek divine intervention to put an end to their “nightmares”.

“We want to tell them to come to church to be saved. So that they stop having nightmares that they are being followed by police officers,” he said.

Gachagua said that the current police service is a professional one and apolitical and has no time to conduct what he described as “nonsense.”

Here is Gachagua at work with his so called professional and apolitical police force beating the crap out of the demonstrators during Saba rallies starting July 7, 2023 and killing 12 people on that day alone.

Demonstrators engage police in running battles in Mathare slums July, 2023 during the anti-government demonstrations.

Gachagua also used grenades to blow up cars of opposition leaders who were inside those cars and just barely escaped alive during the Saba Saba rallies.

The Deputy President said that Matiangi was being haunted by the past injustices he meted against Kenyans when he was in charge of the country’s security docket

Gachagua singled out the extrajudicial killings and arbitrary arrest of citizens during the past regime as one of the reasons why Matiangi and his allies were in a panic.

Of course Raigathi Gachagua’s own record of abuse of human rights and killing Kenyans in demonstrations before he was fired from his office as the DP speaks for itself and Kenyans know that already.

AMNESTY KENYA STATEMENT ON “SABA SABA” PROTESTS

Nairobi, 7 July 2023: Amnesty International Kenya is monitoring protests taking place in Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, Kakamega, Turkana and other parts of the country. Today’s protest commemorates the historical “Saba Saba” movement, which significantly expanded human rights and democracy during the second liberation in the 1990s.

We have received reports of arbitrary arrests of protestors in Nairobi and Western Kenya and selective excessive force against those exercising their right to peacefully assemble, express themselves and register their dissent with recent taxation measures and the cost of living.

This were the peaceful Saba Saba rallies on July 7, 2023 that were attacked from every corner by Gachagua killing more than 10 people just on the first day and as the rallies continued Kenyans were killed everyday and Gachagua told Kenyans he had to wake at 5.00 A.M to go deal with the demonstrators.

Tensions escalated on Friday that week as police clashed with supporters of Azimio leader Raila Odinga during a march towards Nairobi’s Central Business District on the onset of Saba-saba protests before heading to Kamukunji Grounds for a grand rally

Measures taken to ensure the Azimio la Umoja Kamukunji rally proceeds peacefully should have been consistently deployed across all the other demonstrations that police officers have forcefully disrupted.

Our report on the March in July 2023 policing of Maandamano protests empirically documented the misuse of live bullets and teargas, resulting in deaths, injuries, and destruction. Many people died as a result of police action. Among them were two babies who choked to death as teargas filled their homes in Nairobi’s informal settlements.

Amnesty International Kenya urged the police to release those lawfully exercising their right to protest and refrain from using excessive and unlawful force that may result in injuries and deaths.

In summary Kenyans can see that the United Opposition is a house on fire and it is burning down from every corner. Rigathi Gachagua know that Fred Matiang’i is trying to come to terms with his record of massive abuse of human rights as Uhuru’s Interior CS and should to Church to have peace.

Now the first question that comes to mind is who is going to take responsibility for the massive murders using bullets and even grenades attacking peaceful Kenyans in the streets during the Saba Saba rallies in July 2023. That person is none other than Rigathi Gachagua as the DP for William Ruto.

Does he go to church everyday to clean his sins as a murderer for President Ruto? Maybe because when he was attacking Matiang’i he was at that time he was in a prayer service in Nakuru.

Now these two people are now in one “United Opposition” to fight William Ruto and I think it is time to remove the word “United” from this group of scumbags to put is mildly.

The bigger issue is whether this rigmarole group and terrible thing called “United Opposition” can stand on its feet or they are going to do the frog jump to get where they are supposed to go and will never get there.

One thing is for sure is that Matiang’i cannot work together with his fellow abuser and killer of Kenyans Rigathi Gachagua simply because they sure hate each other or at least Gachagua has massive hatred for Fred Matiang’i.

For all practical purposes Matiang’i’s race for the presidency is over and kaput kabisa. His confession is all Kenyans needed even without the inquest. Then we have to ask if the rest of the crumbling members are going to allow him to stay in the group or kick him out.

The problem is that if they kick him out then they also have to kick Gachagua out as well and the two of them are going to have a big public fight. Where is Martha Karua in all of these and how about Kalonzo Musyoka. The shit has hit the roof and it is coming down on all of them. It is heavy.

If Matiang’i is not nominated or is thrown out of the opposition group he is going to run for the presidency on his own. After all Uhuru Kenyatta is sponsoring him and that is a guy with money equal to half of the Kenyan national budget.

In any event when Uhuru grabbed this guy to come run for the presidency he knew all his crimes because he was doing all that for Uhuru to keep the presidency. So Uhuru will stick with his guy even with all the poo covering him from head to toe.

The other mess for that “United Opposition” group is that a part from his terrible record of human rights abuse, Rigathi Gachagua was impeached and his case is now before the Court of Appeal and Justice Martha Koome has appointed the three judges to handle the case.

The ruling is coming down most likely before the end of the year. If his impeachment is confirmed by the court Gachagua will be disqualified from running for the presidency and he is going to nuts.

That is next but one thing we can say about these people is that they are strangling their little baby called “United Opposition” to a very painful death. In some countries there is something called assisted death when someone is dying slowly and the pain is awful and they help you to die quickly. That is the United Opposition in Kenya today.

Maybe Kenyans should give the leaders involved assisted death to kill Mr. United Opposition quickly just out of mercy for the people dealing with it. If that is not done these United Opposition leaders could end up with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) which they will live with for decades after killing their baby with their own hands.

And here is the joke of all jokes as the opposition of killers and human rights abusers in Kenya have formed something called Justice Restorative Commission. Don’t laugh please. Just read the latest media reports on the commission.

Opposition wants inquest into police killings

The country’s Opposition chiefs are calling a public inquest into police brutality and use of excessive force in containing protests.

The leaders also announced the formation of a justice restorative commission led by former Attorney General and Cabinet Secretary (CS) Justin Muturi to report cases of government misconduct.

Speaking at Kenyatta National Hospital yesterday, Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka, Former CS Fred Matiang’i, and DAP-K Party Leader Eugene Wamalwa, among others, said the commission will account for the injustices committed by the State.

“We will soon let Kenyans know where they will be reporting cases of police brutality and other forms of oppression so that we can have a detailed account and evidence of what is happening in the country,” said Kalonzo .

This comes even as questions mount over Dr Matiang’i’s role in police brutality while he served as Interior CS under the Uhuru Kenyatta’s regime.

In a statement on Thursday, Matiang’i declared his readiness to face scrutiny over controversial deaths that occurred during his time at the helm of the country’s powerful security docket.

Adongo Ogony is a Kenyan Human Rights Activist and a Writer who lives in Toronto, Canada