Third Way Alliance Party leader Ekuru Aukot has thrown his weight behind a petition to have Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen and Deputy President Kithure Kindiki expunged from the roll of advocates in the country.
Speaking during a live TV interview on Thursday, July 3, 2025, Aukot stated that Murkomen’s orders to the police, which were later recanted, were an affront to democracy and a claw back to the gains made by the new constitution.
“Someone like Kipchumba Murkomen, when I watched him say the things that he said, then deny the following day, as a lawyer, I am embarrassed to share a profession with someone like that,” Aukot remarked.
Legal profession
I just think he is an embarrassment to the legal profession, and I do hope that the petition that has been filed for the Law Society of Kenya to remove both Kindiki and Murkomen will succeed.”
A petition was filed by Nairobi-based advocate Kepha Ojijo with the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) on June 30, 2025, seeking the removal of Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen and Deputy President Kithure Kindiki from the Roll of Advocates.
The motion accuses both of gross professional misconduct and violating the Advocates’ Code of Conduct during their tenure overseeing the country’s security docket, particularly during the Gen Z protests in 2024 and 2025.
Order to police
Ojijo argues that the two presided over state-sanctioned brutality, including deaths, injuries, abductions, and enforced disappearances, without showing remorse or taking accountability—acts he argues demean the legal profession.
The petition specifically criticises Murkomen’s “shoot-to-kill” directive issued on June 26, 2025, calling it reckless and an embarrassment to the profession.
The remarks come just a day after popular lawyer Willis Otieno welcomed the petition to have the two leaders removed from the list of advocates.
“The oath that we took requires that advocates uphold the rule of law and defend the constitution; their conduct by its nature is not advancing towards the promotion of the rule of law or defending justice, so why should they continue to be in the same bar as the rest of us? They have disregarded the oath; the consequence of it is that they should be removed,” Otieno said.
