Gakuya asks Ruto to step aside for failing to protect Kenyans
Embakasi North Member of Parliament James Gakuya has challenged President William Ruto to quit for failing to assure Kenyans of their safety.
The United Democratic Alliance-allied MP made the remarks during the burial of Boniface Kariuki on Friday, July 11, 2025, in Kangema, Muranga County.
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“We ask William and his team to quit because they have failed to honour the constitution by protecting Kenyans and their property,” he stated.
Protesters be shot
“If you and your CS, Murkomen, are the first to say that Kenyan youths who need to be listened to should be shot, then you have failed. The killings of innocent children should stop,” he asserted.
The MP also fingered the regime over its brutal response to innocent Kenyans who have died while protesting.
“When a government goes against its own people and starts eating them, even if it was chosen by the people, then it has effectively fired itself,” he added.
Gakuya’s remarks mirrored those made by his Starehe counterpart, Amos Mwago, who decried the death of a young soul lost at hands of the law enforcement agencies.
Mwago proposed that the eulogy of Boniface Mwangi, the mask vendor, be handed to President William Ruto for a first-hand account of the brutality of his regime
“It is very sad and hard to eulogise the life of a young person. More so, a guy whose potential we will never know where it would have reached,” he lamented.
“I have heard there is a UDA-nominated leader here. I plead with you, take that program, it said that he died in an accident. Delete that and write that Boni was brutally killed by Kasongo’s government, then take it to Ruto for him to see that a firstborn who was not a criminal but a mere mask vendor was killed,” he stated.
The MP further urged the mourners to solemnly observe Kariuki’s death as a reminder of why they need to oust Ruto and the ruling regime from power.
Kariuki, a hawker, was fatally shot in the head by police during demonstrations in Nairobi’s Central Business District on June 17, 2025.
“Everyone here should take the eulogy, place it in his house, and look at it every day when he wakes up. The only way we can avenge this death is by sending Kasongo home. To stand with this family and the pain they are going through, we have to send Ruto home,” he stated.
