‘I am used to this,’ Orengo alleges PS Omollo, Linda Ground behind Kisumu church violence

Orengo, alongside Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna and other Linda Mwananchi members were attending a church service at the location on Sunday when a group of goons surrounded the church, ready to stage an attack.

Addressing the press after the incident, the Siaya Senator alleged that the state sponsored the violence, with the support of Interior Principal Secretary Raymond Omollo and unnamed leaders allied to ODM’s Linda Ground faction.

“I'm used to this kind of war. And those in the state, because this is a war being waged by the state, with the hands of Raymond Omollo. We have evidence, and part of the leadership in Kisumu, and in Linda Ground, their hand is in what happened in Kisumu today,” said the Siaya governor.

He further alleged that such attacks are with the approval of President William Ruto.

“And the type of leaders who can organize goons to attack a church brazenly- those types of leaders don't deserve to be part of the leadership of a nation like Kenya. But Ruto has seized the state; he has captured it, so he uses it the way he wants. But it will come to an end,” he said.

The governor likened the violence witnessed in Kenya lately to that of Haiti, a Caribbean nation where criminal gangs have taken over its capital city.

“If you want to know Haiti, if you want to go to Haiti, Haiti is here. And the violence, and the audacity of the violence, the way it is being perpetrated, organized, and carried out, has got the hand of the state in it,” said Orengo.