Justin Muturi has once again spoken about the abduction of his son, placing the blame directly on the National Intelligence Service (NIS) and its boss, Noordin Haji. During an interview on JKL, Muturi did not hold back, stating that he had conducted thorough investigations and received reliable information from inside NIS confirming that they were responsible for the abduction.
“I had done a lot of investigations. I had information from someone in NIS that indeed, they were the ones holding my son. When the President called Noordin Haji, he confirmed that they were the ones holding him and said that he would be home within an hour,” Muturi revealed.
This is a shocking admission that shows how the NIS, under Haji’s leadership, is operating in complete impunity. If a senior government official like Muturi has to struggle to find out the whereabouts of his own son, what about ordinary Kenyans?
The fact that Haji admitted to holding Muturi’s son only after the President’s intervention raises serious concerns about how many other people have been abducted without anyone to fight for them.Muturi also provided details of how he tried to reach out for help in the middle of the night but got no immediate response.
“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 and from my phone, it looked like he had not read it. That’s when he confessed to me that his phone had crashed. When he got his phone back, he made the call to Noordin,” Muturi stated.
This shows that if Muturi had not personally confronted the President, his son might have remained in the hands of the abductors for much longer. It also suggests that these abductions could be happening on a larger scale, but people lack access to the President to intervene.
If the President had to directly call Haji for the release to happen, it means Haji had full knowledge of the operation and was overseeing it.
The issue now is what action will be taken against Noordin Haji. He has been exposed as a man who runs NIS like his personal security squad, picking up people at will and only releasing them when forced to. This is a clear abuse of power, and the government must act.
Kenyans have already seen many young people disappear during the Gen-Z protests, and Muturi’s revelations suggest that Haji could have played a role in those cases as well.
The fact that this happened during protests where the government was accused of using excessive force raises even more questions. Was NIS tasked with eliminating or detaining government critics? How many others are still in custody?
These are the questions Noordin Haji must now answer.Justin Muturi has done his part by exposing what happened, but Kenyans are watching to see if the government will take any action against Haji.
If a sitting minister’s son can be abducted by state security, it means no one is safe. The government must now prove that it does not tolerate impunity, starting with holding Haji accountable for his role in these illegal operations.
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