Governance expert and former Nairobi Town Clerk Philip Kisia now wants Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen arrested over his recent shoot-to-kill directive to police.

While speaking during a podcast on June 28, 2025, Kisia said Murkomen should be arrested for issuing illegal orders.

According to Kisia, Murkomen’s role is to formulate policies, not to give operational commands, and he has no authority to issue such directives.

Kisia further questioned why the CS is still free and why he has not been arrested after making such remarks.

He said Murkomen should be arrested immediately and arraigned in court by the Director of Public Prosecutions for overstepping his mandate and issuing illegal orders.

“We are living in very interesting times, where a CS can issue such directives, and he has not been arrested up to now,” Kisia posed.

He went on to state that the Constitution allows for a citizen’s arrest, emphasising that citizens have the power to arrest anyone, including Murkomen, as no one is above the law.

“The constitution allows for citizens to arrest; Murkomen should be arrested, and the DPP should do his work and arraign him in court. The constitution allows citizens to arrest somebody; Murkomen is not above the law; his work is to issue policy and guidance. If the police he has issued are shooting Kenyans, where is he drawing those powers from?” Kisia said.

Murkomen’s order

Speaking when he toured some of the police stations to assess the aftermath of the Wednesday, June 25, 2025, Gen Z memorial protests, Murkomen told the locals that he had ordered the police officers to shoot anyone who would invade a police station with ill intentions.

“Ile shida inafanya saa zingine polisi wapige wakora risasi ni kwa sababu wanashikwa, wanaenda alafu wanarudi kuchekelea polisi wakisema sasa tulifika wapi, hakuna kwenye tulienda. Na tumeambia polisi, mtu yeyote ambaye atakaribia police station, piga yeye risasi,” Murkomen said.

Loosely translated as, “The problem that sometimes makes the police shoot criminals is that they get arrested, are released, and then come back to mock the police, asking, ‘So, where did you take us? Nowhere.’ And we’ve told the police, —Anyone who comes near a police station, shoot them.”

However, Murkomen’s remarks were not received well by his supposed audience, who jeered and told him off.

His remarks came after revealing that goons targeted police stations during protests commemorating victims of the June 2024 anti-government demonstrations that led to the loss of 60 people.

According to Murkomen, the goons targeted armouries and police uniforms at various police stations in the country.

Speaking at a press conference in Nairobi on June 26, 2025, Murkomen revealed that five firearms were stolen from the Dagoretti Police post in Kiambu County.

“The criminals were after guns in the armouries and police uniforms. Five firearms were stolen from Dagoretti Police Post, Kiambu County, while four were burnt at Gachui Police Post,” he lamented.