Senior economic advisor to President William Ruto, Moses Kuria, has urged calm and peace ahead of the planned protests to commemorate the Gen Zs who died and were maimed during the demos of 2024.
Speaking during a live TV show on Sunday, June 22, 2025, Kuria noted that his constituency is the businesspeople and people who rely on stability and peace to go about their lives.
“The businesspeople are looking up to me, parents who just want peace for their children to go to school and come back are also looking up to me,” Kuria said.
Need for peace
“There are so many people who do not care about the things that we are yapping about; an overwhelming majority of Kenyans who just want to go about their normal lives; I exist for those people.”
“I really hope that we can have some creation of peace and stability for such people. We have a good country; other people come here and get envious of our country,” he added.
“We have a very wonderful nation that we should jealously guard. When it comes to issues of just having a country, let us have a country first, working is a bonus.”
The former cabinet secretary warned against a developing trend where the nation has become volatile and is provoked easily by incidents of police brutality.
Condemns police brutality
While condemning the recent shooting of a face mask hawker, Boniface Kariuki, as an unjustified use of force, Kuria equally called out the use of goons to control protests.
“This use of goons sounds sweet. You know, you feel like you are on top of the world. But it will catch up with you. The same goons will catch up with you,” Kuria warned.
“As a 19-year-old, I was on the streets during Saba Saba. So, it’s a territory I know too well. And it worries me when I see us crossing some lines there,” he stated.
Kuria observed that the use of goons for political control was becoming widespread in Nairobi and the Mt Kenya region, and wondered why such activities are not occurring in other parts of the country, like Khayega in Kakamega.
“I decry because I never imagined I would live to see a situation whereby my own people, my own community, this side has goons, the other side has goons. Then what?” he lamented.
“I am disappointed in how the government handles human rights and security. I may be the only person within the administration who has been very consistent; I condemned the abductions and extrajudicial killings,” Kuria observed.
The memorial is set to commemorate the Gen Z protests of 2024, which morphed from a movement calling for the withdrawal of the punitive Finance Bill of 2024 into a full-fledged protest against misgovernance.
