National Assembly Leader of Majority Kimani Ichung’wah has said that Public Service Secretary Justice Muturi is on his way out of the Cabinet due to his differences with President William Ruto.

Ichung’wah, the Kikuyu MP and a close ally of President Ruto, claimed that Muturi knows why he was replaced as Attorney General and that his time in the Cabinet is also up.

“He’s a politician to begin with. He has a beef with his boss in Government. There are reasons Justin Muturi was removed as Attorney General around the time of the demonstrations in June last year. He is probably on his way out. It is him who has made those allegations. That is a matter under active investigations,” Ichungwah said.

Ichungwah said this in an interview with Al Jazeera, where he was asked about about the alleged abduction of Muturi’s son, Leslie, last year.

Ichung’wah claimed that there is irreparable tension between Ruto and Muturi and hinted that the CS might not remain in office for long.

In June last year, Muturi’s son and a friend were abducted in Nairobi over claims they were financing anti-government protests.

Shortly after, Ruto reshuffled his Cabinet, removing Muturi as AG to the Public Service docket.

Muturi later publicly alleged that his son, Leslie, had been abducted by National Intelligence Service (NIS) officers and that he sought the president’s help to secure his release.

Weeks later, addressing the media outside City Mortuary, where the bodies of two of four young men abducted in Mlolongo were found, Muturi expressed outrage at the continued disappearance and murder of Kenyan youths.

“This is murder most foul. It is only fair that, at this point, the country shelves any other business to discuss this matter of abductions and extrajudicial killings,” he said.

He called for an immediate halt to such incidents and investigations into the growing crisis.

“It is not right that parents like these can go for over 40 days searching for their loved ones while we sit somewhere claiming to be discussing the economy. Economy for who? If we are killing and abducting young people, then who are we building the economy for?” he posed.

Muturi decried what he described as the normalisation of extrajudicial killings, saying the government has a duty to protect its citizens rather than preside over their deaths.

He also emphasised that during the campaign period, Ruto vowed to end forced disappearances, yet they continue unabated.