Muthama went public to state that his life was in danger. The security withdrawal resulted in public uproar. Muthama stated that he was not going to relent from speaking the truth in spite of the security withdrawal. In June 2016, Senator Muthama was among Eight Kenyan politicians arrested for alleged hateful public utterances. Six of the politicians were later arraigned in court. They were detained for four days in various police stations around Nairobi before reappearing in court. The charges against Senator Muthama were dropped on 28 July 2016. Position on Komarock land held by KBC In May 2020, Muthama led members of the public including local politicians in a day-long confrontation with public administration at a parcel of land in Koma Rock whose title is held by Kenya Broadcasting Cooperation (KBC). Muthama and his colleagues were protesting the surveying of the land parcel for allocation to squatters who hailed from Nairobi. Muthama is also enjoined in a legal dispute on the ownership of the land between the KBC and the Komarock Ranching and Farming Cooperative Society. According to Muthama, the land parcel constitutes community land held in trust for the residents of Matungulu and the larger Machakos County. 2017 General elections Johnson Muthama protested the nomination of Wavinya Ndeti as Wiper Party candidate for the office of the Machakos County Governor on the grounds that Wavinya who had been the CCU Party leader had been illegally enlisted into the Wiper party. When the Wiper party declined to rescind its decision to nominate Wavinya Ndeti, Muthama protested by declining to defend his Machakos County Senatorial position during the 2017 General Elections. He stated that it would be pointless to be elected to work alongside Alfred Mutua or Wavinya Ndeti as Governors. Muthama had thrown his support in the Machakos Gubernatorial Contest behind Bernard Kiala who he argued was the legitimate Wiper Candidate In the end, the Wiper Party lost both the Senatorial and Gubernatorial Seat in Machakos County. The Senatorial seat was won by Boniface Kabaka belonging to the less known CCU party. Muthama was reported to have abandoned the Wiper Party amid the challenges of the party primaries. In spite of protesting against The Wiper Party's candidate nomination exercise and declining to defend his Senatorial position, Muthama did not quit the Wiper party. The Wiper party primaries which were considered to be flawed were argued to explain why the