This archive report was first published on 10 May 2020.
Gatundu South Member of Parliament Moses Kuria has been at the center of controversy after revealing that President Uhuru Kenyatta's administration has used him as a 'guinea pig' to threaten and pass messages to the opposition.
According to Kuria, he has been in hiding for the last 3 days after being captured in a video speaking to hundreds of Kariobangi South residents whose houses had been demolished by the government he serves in.
On social media, Kuria wrote, “I am very sure if the United Nations demand that a Kenyan be offered to test the Corona Virus vaccine, the Kenya government will offer Moses Kuria as the guinea pig to test the vaccine.”
He claimed that a very senior government officer had ordered for his arrest for visiting the displaced persons, whose rights he maintains had been violated by the very government they elected.
“To the people of Korogocho and Kariobangi village, you shall not walk alone. I will be back with my colleagues and other well wishers to stand with you,” Kuria wrote in a long post narrating his ordeal.
He pledged to return to the area and help the families kicked out of their houses into the rains and cold even in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I have been used before as a guinea pig to send a message to the opposition, the political class. I was arrested and charged in 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 to facilitate arrests of opposition leaders. I had to battle those charges in court before I was acquitted of all of them. But. But still, I am not a guinea pig,” says Moses Kuria.
