Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has denied being aware of the heavy police deployment at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) ahead of former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua's return from a three-week trip to the United States.

Speaking to journalists in Nairobi, Murkomen said neither he nor Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja had prior knowledge of the deployment. "You are the one informing me that there is a heavy deployment.

I was not aware.

Even the IG does not have to know about deployment in a particular place," Murkomen said.