Kieni MP Wainana Njoroge has asked looters to return household appliances that they nicked from his supermarkets during the anti-government protests on Tuesday, June 25.
On the day that will forever be etched in Kenya’s history, thousands of angry youths in Nyeri and Laikipia counties broke into Wainaina’s Chieni supermarkets and stole goods worth millions of shillings.
Wainaina was speaking at the burial service of a veteran Nyeri leader Charles Kariuki, where he told pastors that they were preaching to people who looted him dry and to intercede to them on his behalf.
The politician said the looters had taken ovens and fridges, and he did not want to involve the police.
“I’m the owner of Chieni supermarket. My goods were stolen by people that you preach to. Tell them something because in your homes are my fridges, ovens and washing machines. If it’s possible, please ask them to return the items so that we don’t want to involve the police,” he said.
The MP rebuked the looters, stating that he did not feel like a Christian because being a believer all his life, he could not believe what had happened to him, terming the looting as ungodly.
He painfully recalled his five-storey house was burnt down, and that he woke up as a millionaire and woke up as a poor man.
“If my items remain in people’s houses, then I don’t feel any bit of Christianity in me, and now this is what we’ll be learning that our things get stolen and we praise God. My 5-storey building was burnt down, and I woke up as a millionaire, but I went to bed a poor man. It is not right. It is not with God to burn people’s homes,” he stated.
He added how he went out of his way to help Nyeri residents during the Covid-19 pandemic only to be met with ingratitude.
“During COVID, I donated three lorries full of donations to help our people, and they turned on me in just one day. Ask people to return my things,” Wainaina added.
Wainaina broke down the losses incurred during the attack, revealing that he lost KSh 550 million, with KShs 450 million in stock and Kshs 100 million in equipment. He also stated 350 employees lost their jobs after the attack.
He was targeted because he voted in favour of the controversial Finance Bill 2024, and was among legislators who faced the wrath of Kenyans who were calling for its rejection.
