Itumbi allays fears of goon attacks across towns
Head of Presidential special projects and creative economy coordination, Dennis Itumbi, has allayed fears of goon attacks that characterised Tuesday, July 8, 2025, evening across various towns.
In a statement on Tuesday, July 8, 2025, Itumbi observed that a group of people were spreading fear online about an attack in the night by unidentified people.
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“Tonight, a coordinated wave of digital goonism is targeting Mount Kenya towns,” Itumbi stated
“From Kutus to Kagio, Embu to Ruiru, fear is being weaponised. A few reckless individuals have taken to WhatsApp and social media to peddle a dangerous lie that goons are invading towns.”
Shops closed
He stated that several businesses had closed shop due to the false alarm by people he called saboteurs, hiding behind keyboards.
“Shops are closing, businesses shutting down, and panic is spreading all because of fake alarms engineered by saboteurs hiding behind keyboards. Don’t forward fear. Call out the cowards. We are all Kenyans and no part of Kenya should be hijacked by digital terror,” Itumbi remarked.
The remarks come just hours after People’s Liberation Party leader Martha Karua decried what she terms as the redeployment of a special branch of the police to areas which experienced violence during the Saba Saba Day protests on Monday, July 7, 2025.
Plain-clothes police
Speaking during a live TV interview on Tuesday, July 8, 2025, Karua disclosed that she was aware that the officers had been redeployed to the troubled areas even after the protests ended.
“I am receiving reports that ununiformed people who could be security officers or part of the militias of yesterday, have been dropped all over the towns where there was trouble yesterday: In Mwea, Ruiru, Thika and Rongai,” Karua said.
“How will people believe that these are not security officers and not militias who have come to inflict more terror on them? When a regime sends out sponsored militia, do they have control anymore? Can they guarantee Kenyans’ security?” she posed.
The officers, who used unmarked Subaru vehicles, were deployed to Rongai, Kiserian and Ngong areas of Kajiado County, where they were seen quelling protests which had escalated in the region.
