Former President Uhuru Kenyatta resurfaced and addressed the press on Friday evening following allegations that police officers had raided the Karen home of his first-born son, Jomo.
Uhuru, visibly agitated, stated that he was at his office catching up on business when his son alerted him that people dressed in civilian clothes claiming to be police were demanding admission to his residence.
He rushed over, but when he reached, the officers, who were driving vehicles with South Sudan license plates, had already left.
The former president then slammed the administration for an attempt to intimidate individuals closest to him rather than going after him directly.
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Uhuru also cited recent incidents in the country that suggest the State is working against him, such as the withdrawal of security officers assigned to his mother, Mama Ngina Kenyatta, and a threat by Trade, Industry, and Investment Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria to storm his Ichaweri home and relieve himself there.
“All of these things are flowing in a row. I have a whole minister of government saying that he’s going to do I don’t know what in front of my mother’s house. I have people who have been guarding my mother for the last 50 years withdrawn at night. I have now a situation where my son’s home is being raided for things that I don’t understand,” he stated.
“So I ask myself, what does this government want? Because if it wants me, the fact that I’ve been silent doesn’t mean I’m scared, come for me.”
He added: “What does my mother have to do with anything? What do my children have to with anything? Kama shida yenu ni mimi, I’m here. They know where I am 24/7. Why all this intimidate a 90-year-old woman and children? If it is me you want, come and tell us what you want.”
