KTN News has laid bare the ugly truth that the August 16 goon attack on the Linda Mwananchi convoy in Homa Bay was no random clash of passions. It was a calculated, cold-blooded operation planned by leaders including Homa Bay Governor Gladys Wanga and Homa Bay Town MP Peter Kaluma, who swore to protect the people yet chose instead to unleash terror on them.
Four Kenyans are dead. Scores more carry scars from machetes and stones. Vehicles lie in ashes.
And the political class has already moved on, treating the blood spilled as nothing more than another footnote in the long ledger of political violence.
Fresh details emerging from investigations show that the violence was not spontaneous. Meetings were held in the dead of night.
Youths were rounded up, paid a few hundred shillings each, armed with crude weapons and sent out with clear instructions: block the roads, stop the convoy by force, and make sure the visitors never reach their destination.
Local leaders allegedly assured the recruits that the police would look the other way. The result was an ambush that left graves filled and families shattered.
At the centre of these damning claims stand Wanga and Kaluma. Witnesses and sources place them at key planning sessions where the operation was hatched. Kaluma was captured on video days earlier urging supporters to flush out “infiltrators” and confront anyone chanting messages he did not like.
He spoke of searching hotels and driving out those he considered enemies. Shortly afterwards, armed youths stormed a beach hotel, terrorising guests and staff.
On the day of the attack itself, roadblocks of stones, logs and burning tyres appeared along the routes into the county.
Convoys were pelted. Teargas filled the air. Blood flowed.
Wanga has denied any link to the violence, insisting she has never been associated with such acts. Kaluma has turned the tables, accusing the visiting leaders of running over a widow and causing havoc.
Yet the evidence of premeditation continues to mount. Goons were ferried in from neighbouring counties. Weapons were distributed in advance. Police presence was either absent or ineffective at the critical moments.
Journalists were attacked and their equipment stolen. Ordinary citizens who had nothing to do with the politics of the day paid the ultimate price.
This is not mere political rivalry. This is a blatant abuse of power and a direct assault on the constitutional right of every Kenyan to assemble, move freely and express political views without fear of death.
Leaders entrusted with the safety of their counties instead organised and directed the very chaos that left four people dead.
The flowers on those graves are already withering, and the police investigations appear to be fading just as quickly. Arrests of low-level suspects have been made, but the masterminds remain untouched, free to attend the next rally as if nothing happened.
Kenyans have seen this script before. Political goons are hired, lives are destroyed, and the powerful walk away.
Silence from those named will not erase the blood on the ground. Accountability is not optional. The families of the dead deserve more than empty statements and shifting blame.
They deserve the full truth, and they deserve to see those who planned this horror face the law. Anything less is a betrayal of the very democracy these leaders claim to defend.
