Gakuya says Ruto’s statement backs Muturi’s claim on son’s abduction
Embakasi North Member of Parliament (MP) James Gakuya has weighed in on President William Ruto’s recent remarks regarding abductions, saying the president’s statement supports former Public Service Cabinet Secretary Justin Muturi’s claim that Ruto personally intervened in the release of his son.
Speaking to a local media station on Tuesday, May 13, 2025, a day after the president publicly addressed the issue of abductions, Gakuya said Ruto’s words revealed that he was fully aware of the individuals who had been abducted.
“The statement made by the president yesterday (May 12, 2025) is clearly an indication that the head of state was aware of those who were abducted, and that is why he had a firm statement that all of them have been released back to their families,” Gakuya said.
In addition, Gakuya argued that the president’s remarks validate claims made earlier by Muturi, who had said it was Ruto himself who made a call to secure the release of Muturi’s son following his abduction.
“This now clearly confirms a statement made by former minister Justin Muturi was correct that it is the head of state who made a call for his son’s release,” he added.
Ruto on abduction
Ruto, during a question-and-answer session during the Kenya-Finland joint media briefing at State House, Nairobi, claimed that all Kenyans who were abducted in the recent past have been found and taken back to their homes and families.
”There is an accountability mechanism to make sure that that situation is attended to, and a proper accountability mechanism is put in place. I undertook to the country that, being a democracy and robustly so, Kenyans must not, as it has happened in the past, where Kenyans disappeared and their bodies were found in all manner of places, and that that will not happen under my administration,” Ruto said on Monday, May 12, 2025.
“All the people who disappeared or who were abducted have been brought back to their families and their homes, and I have given clear and firm instructions that that kind of nature will not happen again.”
Muturi on son’s abduction
On Wednesday, March 12, 2025, during a local TV interview, Muturi clarified the details of his conversation with the president regarding his son’s abduction. He explained that upon learning of his son’s abduction, he sent a distress message to Ruto at around 3 am, hoping for immediate intervention. However, he did not receive a response at the time.
“That portion of standing outside the pavilion, I have seen it being misinterpreted. I want to make it clear. It was I, and the president. The president and I were standing next to each other; it’s not that I was hearing him talk from a distance. I told him that I sent him a text message at 3 am, & from my phone, it looked like he had not read it,” Muturi narrated.
“That’s when he confessed to me that his phone had been crushed. When he got his phone back from a young man who was fixing it, he told him that he could make a call, but he could not send a text, and that was when he called Noordin.”
