Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary, Kipkorir Sing'oei, on Sunday criticised the government for the arbitrary arrests reported since the commencement of the Finance Bil, 2024 protests.
The PS in a post reacted to a video which had gone viral where he poked holes into the alleged abduction of former Nandi Hills Member of Parliament, Alfred Keter.
Kipkorir cautioned the government against the use of extra-judicial means to arrest individuals regardless of the circumstances at hand.
He further stated that even though the arrests were effected for legitimate objectives, the means were crude and failed to uphold constitutional guidelines.
“There is a procedure for effecting an arrest. This is not one of them. We must resist the temptation to adopt extra-legal means even in the pursuit of legitimate objectives,” stated Kipkorir.
In the viral video that prompted the PS to make the comments, the former legislator was forcefully ejected from his vehicle by a group of hooded men.
The group approached Keter’s vehicle, in Lavington, Nairobi County where they drew him out amid the ex-MP’s cries for help.
He was later bundled into a pick-up truck which drove away leaving the legislator’s family in his vehicle.
The abduction is stated to have occurred earlier on Sunday afternoon while the family was leaving church.
"Abducted, headed to an unknown destination," a social media account associated with Keter posted moments after the incident.
The former legislator has recently been in the limelight for criticising the Kenya Kwanza government.
Following these critiques, several individuals have since claimed that the government was involved in the kidnappings.
