The Standard Group Plc is a multi-media organization with investments in media platforms spanning newspaper print operations, television, radio broadcasting, digital and online services. The Standard Group is recognized as a leading multi-media house in Kenya with a key influence in matters of national and international interest.

Standard Group Plc HQ Office,
The Standard Group Center,Mombasa Road.
P.O Box 30080-00100,Nairobi, Kenya.
Telephone number: 0203222111, 0719012111
Email: [email protected]

NEWS & CURRENT AFFAIRS

The Nairobian

State using abductions to retain power, claims Karua

Politics

By Sharon Wanga | Oct 28, 2024

**NARC Kenya leader Martha Karua.** [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

The National Rainbow Coalition Party leader Martha Karua has criticized the government for using force and instilling fear in people to remain in power.

Speaking on Spice FM on Monday, Karua called out the government for the abductions across the country.

“They are using force and illegal means to remain in power. If indeed one has committed an offense, there's a legal framework within which one can be picked and questioned but if you are being picked clandestinely clearly because you are a thorn in the flesh of the administration,” Karua said.

Karua complained about the administration citing the arrest of activist Boniface Mwangi and others who had been arrested this year.

“The Ruto regime has a campaign of instilling fear and intimate meddling Kenyans and obliterating any contrary opinion,” she opined.

She claimed that the government was playing damn for assuming to be unaware of the extrajudicial killings and abductions going on in the country.

Keep Reading business

The NARC leader said that the ongoing injustice in the country has been witnessed since the previous administration from the formation of Mungiki sect to the dumping of bodies in River Yala.

She faulted President William Ruto for making false promises of improving security and freedom during his campaign seasons.

“Ruto had said that the extrajudicial killing was a thing of the past, in my heart I was skeptical of those statements because the way I know him I know he is a person who does not respect the rights of others, you cannot condone or be part of corruption,” she argued.

Karua condemned the ongoing abductions conducted by state agencies, police officers, and ununiformed security officers without identity.

“What country have we become, a country that abducts, touchers, and kills its own, a country that is having detention camps, and this is not in dispute,” she said.

She further pointed at the parliament and the executive for neglecting their roles in representing the public.

Karua said that the parliament has not considered the opinion of Kenyans in regard to weighty issues like the controversial Adani deal.

She questioned the level of commitment that the Members of Parliament showed during the debate for the deputy president’s impeachment motion.

“If you can hold a shambolic share and attend almost 100 percent and when it’s issues affecting Kenyans including about the right to life, and liberty we see parliament not well attended, “ she noted.

According to Karua, the MPs have lost focus of their role to the electorate as watchdogs.

She also questioned why the president has been defending the Adani Holdings Limited instead of defending the public.

“Look at him even defending Adani, Adani didn't elect him, it’s the people of Kenya unless Adani is his mask. he is defending them because he has an interest in them.”