The government has warned of possible arrests in the coming days in relation to the violence that characterised last week's three days of nationwide protests.
In a statement on Tuesday, Interior CS Kithure Kindiki said relevant agencies in the criminal justice system are analysing available evidence for the purpose of holding those involved accountable.
"In the coming days, weeks and months, the masterminds of widespread violence against the people of Kenya, including those associated with the huge consignments of money and weapons which were intercepted on their way to harm the public have a date with accountability," Kindiki said.
The CS revealed that last week, police intercepted a large cache of conventional and crude weapons, narcotic drugs and cash on their way to fuel the riots that rocked some parts of the country.
Kindiki said it has been established that licensed and unlicensed civilian firearms supplied by the masterminds of the recent violence were used to kill or injure civilians and security personnel and the blame shifted to security officers.
"The scale of violence and destruction occasioned by persons masquerading as peaceful protestors exercising their Constitutional rights shock the conscience of mankind," he said.
The CS dismissed claims that police officers who were deployed for crowd control used excessive force on protesters and exercised extrajudicial killings.
"The National Police Service and other national security organs remain neutral, impartial and professional and shall not be drawn into political, ethnic or such other sectarian nuances whatsoever," he said.
His statement coincided with one by Interior PS Raymond Omollo who revealed that at least one police officer was killed during the demos.
Omollo said 305 law enforcement officers were also seriously injured and 158 vehicles and nine police stations were either burnt down or severely damaged by criminals masquerading as protesters.
"More than 850 shops and other business premises were also broken into and looted while 199 buildings were destroyed and various public utilities worth billions of shillings vandalised," he added.
He said some 156 cases of assault and violent robberies were also reported while several non-protesting motorists and pedestrians were attacked and robbed of their belongings by the rioters.
