‘If AG cannot get his phone calls answered who can?’ – Kalonzo wades into Muturi’s son abduction saga

Wiper Party Leader Kalonzo Musyoka on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, raised critical questions following an all-telling statement recorded by Public Service Cabinet Secretary Justin Muturi regarding his son Leslie Muturi’s abduction.

While addressing the press, the former Vice President wondered what would happen to normal citizens if distress calls from a senior government official went unanswered.

Following the explosive expose, Kalonzo argued that the Ruto administration needed to come clean on the matter and assure the citizens of their safety.

Accompanied by other opposition leaders, Kalonzo maintained that Muturi’s statement could not be wished away at a time when cases of abductions had peaked in the country.

“If the Attorney General cannot get his phone calls answered by junior staff such as the DG of the NIS of the DCI Director, who can?” Kalonzo posed.

“If the then Interior Cabinet Secretary Prof Kithure Kindiki and PS Raymond Omollo are furnished with lies by their juniors, what is the State of the Kenya Kwanza regime?” he wondered.

This was after Muturi narrated the harrowing experience his son went through following the abduction ordeal in June 2024 at the height of the anti-Finance Bill 2024 protests.

Muturi who then served as Attorney General in Ruto’s administration claimed that Leslie was taken by armed men and taken to an unknown location. His efforts to get answers from some senior government officials proved futile. Specifically, Muturi claimed that NIS Director-General Noordin Haji failed to pick up his calls.

He spoke to different other officials before reaching to out Deputy President Kithure Kindiki who then served as Interior Cabinet Secretary who then he claimed contacted the NIS boss regarding his son’s abduction.

Muturi stated that an intelligence officer later confirmed to him that NIS officers were holding Leslie.

He then escalated the matter by contacting then-Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki, who managed to speak to Haji.

“Despite my insistence that a NIS officer had confirmed their involvement, Kindiki maintained that the Director-General could not be lying,” Muturi recounted.

Muturi noted he then decided to reach out to President William Ruto who helped secure his son’s release.

“Standing outside the Pavilion, I heard the president ask Haji if he was holding my son. Haji confirmed it, and the president instructed him to release Leslie immediately,” Muturi who reported a statement on Tuesday, January 14, 2025, added.

Calls for impeachment

Kalonzo’s remarks came after a section of Kenya Kwanza lawmakers threatened to sanction Muturi’s impeachment following his statement.

Led by Chief Whip Sylvanus Osoro, they threatened to push for the ouster of the Public Service CS if he failed to withdraw his statement.

Muturi however dared the MPs to go ahead and table the impeachment motion.

At the time of this publication, President Ruto, Kindiki, NIS boss and other junior officers mentioned by CS Muturi had not given their version of the story of what transpired.