'Gov't wants to kill me!' Jimi Wanjigi now claims Ruto, Uhuru fear him

Speaking in an interview on Citizen TV's The Explainer Show on Tuesday, Wanjigi alleged that the attack which linked him to possession of assault weapons including hand grenades and teargas canisters was a sign that the regime intended to kill him.

The Safina Party leader referred to a past raid during former President Uhuru Kenyatta's administration saying that Ruto and his predecessor have a hidden animosity towards him.

"I don't think it is the question of police, it is the question of two presidents, former President Uhuru Kenyatta, and the current president William Ruto. What happened in both incidents was literally criminal activities; they used the police for criminal activities in my home," he said.

"My family was saying that if these people catch you they will kill you, they won't kill us. They may threaten us, and take us in, but it would be too much for them to kill us. I absolutely think that the Ruto regime wants to kill me. Why come and say I have grenades? To say I have grenades is saying that I am waging a war using arms."

The outspoken politician went on to clarify that the recent raid where armed officers kept his house under siege for more than two days was not about discovering any alleged weapons in his house but only to arrest him.

Wanjigi asserted that if the government was concerned about arresting him, it would have easily issued an arrest warrant or followed the lawful channels of arresting suspects instead of terrorising his family.

"I don't think that it is my home, I think it is me that they seek because, on both times, it has been about me. If it is about the law, there are many ways you can arraign me in court," he said.

The businessman reiterated his past sentiments that he watched the police as they were planting explosives and guns in his motorcade, adding that it was likely that both Uhuru and Ruto could be afraid of him and should come out and shed light on the same.

"But on two incidents they planted stuff, guns in the first incidents and now they are saying there are grenades and smoke bombs, teargas canisters and God know what else," he added.

"Here we have two regimes creating criminalities to get me. This is them who fear me. You should ask them why they fear me. It has never happened to anybody else in this country. Raila Odinga said that even in the Moi regime it never happened."