Muturi claims Murkomen had issues with some clauses on Finance Bill 2024
By Mabonga Makhanu, July 15, 2025Former Public Service Cabinet Secretary Justin Muturi has revealed that the current Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen was among those who opposed certain clauses in the controversial Finance Bill 2024, which eventually triggered the Gen Z-led protests across the country.
Speaking during a podcast aired on Monday, July 14, 2025, Muturi disclosed that Murkomen had raised serious concerns about the bill during the committee stage, leading to a delay in its passage.
According to him, the disagreements were so significant that the committee could not move the bill forward and had to wait until the matter was brought before the full Cabinet.
“Many of ours were on the same page, and I like telling the truth. Even this guy called Murkomen, I remember at the committee he raised a number of issues concerning that finance bill. We did not approve it at the committee; we said, ‘Let’s go and approve it in the full cabinet,’” Muturi said without immediately revealing the clauses that Murkomen had issues with.
Muturi further stated that many Cabinet members, including himself, had issues with the bill and were aligned with the concerns raised by the youth who publicly rejected it. He criticised the Finance Committee for ignoring public views during the participation phase, noting that the people’s suggestions were dismissed instead of being considered.
“What happened then, everybody was raising a lot of issues; everybody could tell. We watched the presentations by the people before the finance committee. It was a shame that the finance committee trashed those views given by the people of Kenya,” he added.
He maintained that the failure to listen to the public contributed to the widespread anger and eventual protests witnessed across the country.
His son’s abduction
During the same interview, he has also come out to speak on how a series of troubling thoughts ran through his mind after his son was abducted — despite him being a member of the National Security Advisory Council (NSAC), which is chaired by the President and also includes the Director General of the National Intelligence Service (NIS).
Muturi revealed that the incident shook him deeply and “sent him to default settings”. He questioned how such a thing could happen to his own family when he was part of the highest security advisory body in the country.
According to Muturi, what disturbed him most was the speed at which his son was released, barely an hour after he confronted the president about the abduction. To him, this was a strong indication that the president was aware of the incident and may have even been privy to it from the start.
He further wondered how his son could be abducted by the NIS — an institution whose leadership is part of NSAC alongside himself — and yet the Director General of NIS refused to pick up his calls during the ordeal. It was only after he reached out to the president directly that action was taken and his son released almost immediately.