Fred Matiang'i Returns to Kenya

Former Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i is back in Kenya.

This is after weeks of silently jetting out of the country in the face of his scuffle with the state.

A source who spoke to Nairobileo.co.ke confirmed that Matiang'i touched down at the JKIA at 10pm on Saturday, February March 4.

He was aboard a KLM Flight 0566; to receive him at the airport were close family members.

Matiang'i had traveled to the United Kingdom where he was reportedly attending to a private family engagement.

His silent flight out of the country was revealed by the immigration department which divulged that Matiang'i booked a KLM flight out of the country on Sunday, February 19.

While defending Matiang'i, his lawyer Danstan Omari said the former CS would be in the European nation for a period of two weeks after which he would come back to the country.

“There is nothing sinister about his travel. He is there to attend to an urgent private family matter and shall return to resume his ordinary routine as a private citizen,” the lawyer explained.

“Those familiar with his travel schedules over time will confirm that he travels regularly to that part of the world via KLM." 

Omari termed claims that the former CS fled the country as “unfair and unfortunate" adding that he did not know of any probe while leaving the country.

On the EACC and DCI probes, he said they have no problem with them as long as they are conducted “with due regard to the rights of every citizen.”

He held that “the aspersions created in the reports are clearly stage-managed wars and evidently driven by inexplicable vendetta and malice.”