As the National Police Service (NPS) promises an impartial, comprehensive review of the security footage from the June 12 attack, a newly surfaced whistleblower interview on Citizen TV has entirely altered the narrative. The self-confessed operative revealed that the gang of youth assembled on Thursday evening had absolutely no idea they were going to desecrate a church.
Instead, the job was pitched as a standard Sh2,000 per-person political assignment to counter a purported meeting associated with opposition figure Rigathi Gachagua in the Nairobi Central Business District (CBD).
The prompt on Friday morning changed without warning. The operatives were instructed to source motorbikes, ride in pairs, and follow a new set of tactical commanders directly to the gates of All Saints Cathedral. Their primary directive: prevent the public from picking apart the newly tabled Sh4.84 trillion fiscal estimates.
The Mechanics of the Alleged State-Linked Sabotage
Operation Factor Initial Briefing (Thursday Night) Tactical Execution (Friday Morning)
Stated Target Opposition political assembly (Rigathi Gachagua). Civil Society post-budget dialogue forum.
Financial Payout Sh2,000 per individual upon completion. Aborted mid-operation; proxies fled without full pay.
Operational Control Political coordinators and middle-tier brokers. Plain-clothes police officers embedded in the gang.
Tactical Command Create public presence / counter-protest. Systematic distraction, phone snatching, and assault.
The Operational Command: Plain-Clothes Officers in the Ranks?
The most damning allegation leveled by the confessor involves direct administrative direction from within the crowd. The whistleblower stated that plain-clothes police officers were physically embedded within the group, advising the hired youth on how to circumvent local surveillance and security barriers.
According to the source, upon arriving at the scene, the officers realized the optical danger of the motorcycle convoy. “Kufika huko tukaingia na ma pikipiki, hao mapolisi tulikuwa nao wakasema hii inachoma (When we got there with motorbikes, the police officers we were with said this is drawing too much attention/heat),” the informant stated.
The officers allegedly ordered the group to temporarily retreat, park the motorbikes, and assemble at a nearby active construction site out of the immediate field of view of the primary cathedral gates.
The Surveillance Failure: The entire plan to launch a covert foot assault from the blind spot collapsed when one of the alert gang members noticed that the construction site itself was monitored by private security cameras. Panicking that their identities would be archived, the plain-clothes handlers abandoned the strict protocol, allowing the gang to fracture into the opportunistic, chaotic robbery spree seen on the church’s upper floors.
Pressure Mounts on Kibre Police Station and DCI
While the political class scrambles to manage the fallout, one suspect caught by citizens on the second floor of the sanctuary remains in custody at Kibre Police Station. Legal representatives from the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) have demanded that the statements taken from this individual be treated with absolute transparency.
Human rights networks, including the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC), have warned that any attempt by the state to shield the financiers named by the arrested suspect will be met with immediate legal challenges. The public, they argue, has a constitutional right to know why a sitting lawmaker would use public resources to deploy armed, coordinated youth to assault religious figures, governance experts, and common citizens.
Conclusion: A Systemic Crisis of Faith
The details of the All Saints Cathedral attack expose a dark reality where the margins of political survival overlap with the exploitation of unemployed youth. If the allegations of embedded police involvement hold any weight, the issue ceases to be a simple case of criminal trespass—it becomes a state-sanctioned assault on constitutional freedoms.
