Kalonzo slams govt for snubbing Boniface Kariuki’s burial
By Luke Oluoch, July 11, 2025Wiper Party leader Kalonzo Musyoka has called out the government for snubbing Boniface Kariuki’s burial ceremony that took place on Friday, July 11, 2025.
Taking to his X page on Friday, July 11, 2025, moments after laying the mask vendor to rest at his ancestral home in Kangema, Murang’a County, the former VP revealed his astonishment at the eerie silence from the government quarters.
The politician stated that the silence on the part of the regime screamed complicity in the crime that ensued following the fatal shooting of the unarmed mask vendor during demonstrations in Nairobi’s Central Business District on June 17, 2025.
”Today, as we stood with the people of Murang’a, a community shaken by grief as they laid to rest Boniface Kariuki, I was struck not just by the family and friends’ unbroken spirit but also by their determined resolve to seek justice for Boniface,” he said.
“It was also not lost on me that the current regime did not send a representative nor offer a single word of condolence. Their silence screams of complicity. As we mourn a young life stolen by Kenyan taxpayers-bought bullets, we reaffirm this truth: justice delayed is not only justice denied, it is a continuation of violence,” he posited.
Kalonzo was accompanied by a host of opposition leaders for the occasion where the calls for justice and an end to police brutality and crackdown on demonstrators dominated the speeches.
Among the other leaders present were former cabinet secretaries Eugene Wamalwa and JB Muturi.
Murang’a Governor Irungu Kang’ata and the area’s senator Joe Nyutu, Busia Senator and presidential hopeful Okiya Omtatah.
MPs Jayne Kihara (Naivasha Town), Amos Mwago (Starehe), and former Transport PS Irungu Nyakera were also in attendance.
Speaking at the function, Mwago proposed that the eulogy of Boniface Mwangi be handed to President William Ruto for a first-hand account of the brutality of his regime.
The MP decried the death of a young soul lost at hands of the law enforcement agencies.
“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.