MAN WHO ‘MISLED’ MEDIA THAT MURANGA PEOPLE WORE PANTIES TAKEN INTO FORCED QUARANTINE

BY KK ONLINE NEWS EDITOR

PHOTO TWO:Mr Gedion Muriu being ushered at Maragua police station where he had been summoned for Mathare panties story. He has been taken into a forced quarantine of 14 days after Governor Mwangi Wa Iria's claims that he misled the slum dwellers to wear panties. PHOTO ONE Mr Muriu wearing a pantie.

 

 

 BY KK ONLINE NEWS EDITOR

Gideon Muriu, a man who led media to a slum in Maragua where locals allegedly wore panties to avoid being arrested and charged has been taken into forced quarantine at Muranga Teachers and Training College.

Muranga Governor Mwangi Wa Iria broke the news to journalists on Thursday said a team from both the County and the National Government probed the matter and found that the man duped villagers in wearing the panties for his own political interests.

The County boss on Thursday said Mr Muriu will have to stay at the quarantine center for 14 days and will pay for the expenses which the KK online News has established to be between Sh20000 to Sh28000.

He said by luring locals to wear panties instead of masks, Mr Muriu risked his life and those of the villagers saying all other people who will risk the lives of the residents of Muranga will have to be quarantined for 14 days and pay for the expenses.

We are not punishing the man, he is paying for his mistakes, he will have to stay at the quarantine center for 14 days and then subjected for testing, if he does anything fishy, he will have to stay at the center for a longer period,” he told scribes.

 Last week, the country woke up to sensational news that a section of Murang’a residents have been reduced into wearing some rather unorthodox masks after they were duped by unscrupulous traders.

Residents of Mathare village led by Mr Muriu told the journalists that they bought the panties Sh20 with residents saying they only realized they were wearing panties long after they had bought the masks.

Maragua Assistant County Commissioner also waded in the debate castigating Mr Muriu for ‘feigning ignorance’ and inviting media to Mathare slum to ‘seek publicity’.

He claimed to have handed some masks, sanitizers and reflectors to Mr Muriu before the story aired and disclosed that he (Mr Muriu) had even texted him over relief food.

Panties that the residents of Mathare bought at Sh20 saying poverty forced them to buy to avoid police beating

“Mr Muriu wrote a text message over relief food need for Mathare people and I told him that the government would address the issues, I had given him the sanitizers and the masks for the people but to my surprise, he went ahead and bought five panties and took media at the slum for fake publicity,” the State officer said.

Residents of Mathare wearing panties.