This archive report was first published on 29 July 2019.
Senate Majority Leader Kipchumba Murkomen delivered a scathing rebuke to President Uhuru Kenyatta's administration over the murder of his former PA, Benson Kiptire, at his burial on July 6, 2019.
Benson Kiptire was abducted on June 22, 2019, by people claiming to be police officers and his body was found dumped at Kamatira Forest in West Pokot County with a head injury.
Speaking at the burial, Murkomen said, 'Benson is lying there because it is a demonstration of a failure of a system of government that was supposed to support the rule of law. Benson is an indictment to the government to which I serve and to which I campaigned for.'
He added, 'My message to President Uhuru Kenyatta is clear: security will not be managed in the country through assassinations and extra-judicial killings, it won't solve any problem.'
Murkomen's comments came barely a week after he announced that another ally, Benson Kiptoo, had lost his life in cold blood. Kiptoo's body was found dumped at Chepchoina Forest in Trans Nzoia County.
However, Kenyans took to social media to mock Murkomen's sudden outrage, reminding him of his silence when opposition figures like Jacob Juma and Baby Pendo were murdered.
As one Twitter user put it, 'Welcome baba, we have been here before.'
