Kalonzo urges IG to disband police Operation Support Unit over intimidation claims
Key points
- Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka called on the Inspector General of Police to disband the Operation Support Unit (OSU).
- In an NTV interview he alleged OSU works with goons and militias to intimidate political opponents, citing fear of arrest and abduction among some opposition supporters.
- He claimed he sheltered a nominated Makueni MCA who feared abduction by officers in six Subarus, later taking the politician to police headquarters with lawyers.
- Kalonzo framed disbandment as urgent, saying as a former government insider he knows how such units operate; police response was not in the same package.
“Did you know there’s a police unit called OSU; Operation Support Unit? That is a unit that is working with the goons, the militias, to terrorise even political opponents,” Wiper Party leader Kalonzo Musyoka said in an NTV interview on Monday, Eastleigh Voice reported.
Kalonzo urged the Inspector General of Police to disband the unit “very quickly,” arguing from his experience in government that the formation has been used against opposition supporters. He said some of those targeted fear arrest and abduction. The claims are political allegations, not court findings — but they land weeks after multi-stakeholder meetings on goonism and hired violence ahead of 2027.
Makueni MCA shelter claim and six Subarus
The Wiper leader further alleged he had been hiding a nominated member of the County Assembly of Makueni who, he said, was supposed to be arrested by officers in six Subarus and feared abduction. “This gentleman now, we said we would take him to the police headquarters. I think he’s there right now with his lawyers. But he was hiding in my house because he didn’t want to be abducted again by OSU,” Kalonzo said, without naming the MCA in the published package. He also alleged some goons had been given weapons.
Crime desk: Crime. Verified interview framing, unit name and shelter narrative from Eastleigh Voice; no IG statement, charge sheet or independent verification of the six-Subaru claim appeared in the same report. Readers should treat named tactics as contested political speech until documented by oversight bodies.
IPOA, NPS and Parliament’s security committees now face a simple transparency test: publish what OSU’s mandate is, who commands it, and how complaints are logged. Without that paper trail, disbandment demands and denials will trade slogans into the election year.
Based on Eastleigh Voice reporting of Kalonzo’s NTV interview (Lucy Mumbi, 10 August 2026). Allegations remain unproven; no court judgment was cited in the source package.
