Police Ban NASA's Public Rally in Nairobi
Police have banned a National Super Alliance (NASA) public rally scheduled for Thursday afternoon at Kamukunji grounds in Nairobi to prepare for opposition leader Raila Odinga's grand reception as he arrives from the US on Friday.
Nairobi police commander Japheth Koome said the rally by the opposition would likely disrupt the ongoing Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations in the schools surrounding the area.
The ban was imposed after Kenya National Examination Council chairperson Prof. George Magoha appealed for more security for the schools along the routes the Nasa supporters were likely to use.
On Monday, Siaya senator James Orengo urged supporters to converge at the historic Kamukunji grounds for a build-up rally ahead of Odinga’s arrival at JKIA on Friday.
“Organisers of the grand welcome invite supporters to a major rally. The rally will be a dress rehearsal for the Friday grand welcome,” Senator Orengo said in a statement on Monday.
“This is part of our continuing journey of ensuring electoral justice and putting an end to the evil culture of sham elections with pre-determined outcomes. Together we shall triumph.”
The Inspector General of Police has also warned NASA supporters against entering Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on Friday to welcome Raila as have been instructed by their leaders.
"The attention of the National Police Service has been drawn to press reports to the effect that some politicians are mobilizing crowds to march to the JKIA to receive Raila Odinga on Friday 17th upon his return from an overseas trip. Anyone wishing to organise a public procession or meeting must comply with the Public Order Act (2016)."
"JKIA is a protected area hence access is open to bonafide travelers and all others with legitimate business at the airport who must be subjected at all times to the standard security measures. It is therefore not advisable to mobilise huge crowds to travel to that facility as it risks jeopardising the safety of air operators, passengers and other airport users," read the statement from IG.
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Nobody in Kenya expected…
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Nobody in Kenya expected Uhuru and Ruto to wear the shoes of dictatorship the way Kenyatta and Toroitich did. It is very sad to see these two men wear the shoes of oppression in a land where many patriotic people fought hard, lost their lives, their families suffered a great deal in order to get rid of the British, Kenyatta and Toroitich's ruthless regimes!
They have no constitutional right to ban political meetings. It is time they both resigned and went back to the jobs that they did before Toroitich picked them up and trained them to be dictators who have no respect for our new constitution that they both opposed bitterly.
THE GOVERNMENT NEED TO STOP…
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THE GOVERNMENT NEED TO STOP PANICKING. The power resides with the masses according to the KATIBA and as it is the masses are expressing their disapproval and rejection of this imposed Rule by gathering to welcome the duly elected president of Kenya in one Raila A. Odinga. Jini alimtoka kibuyu awali na amrudi humo dani tena.
We need an opposition that…
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We need an opposition that CARES for the mwananchi, period! This opposition (RAO/ODM/NASA/NRM) cares about one thing; INCLUSION IN THE EATING! We only hear them scream and throw tantrums when they are not part of the eating... keeping quiet when they get piece of the LOOT, screaming hoarse again when they are left out.
This opposition has been their since independence, WHAT CAN THEY SHOW for it? RAO, for one, has been elected by Kibra people for decades, WHAT HAS HE DONE FOR THEM? Look at the SQUALOR IN KIBRA and LUO LAND...blaming everyone for their own failures, yet, they, RAO and the other luo elected leaders (the Nyongo's etc) live HOLLYWOOD lifestyles, with THEIR KIDS well SCHOOLED outside the country, take their families for MEDICAL CARE outside the country, tell POOR KIDS to go fight the law with their BLOOD and FLESH while they lock themselves in PALATIAL HOMES, in luoland or in Nairobi and/or overseas. Where are THEIR KIDS TO FIGHT with the poor kids ON THE FOREFRONT?
This opposition keeps quiet and turns the other side when THEIR OWN are involved in WRONG DOING...yet are UP IN ARMS when other leaders in government commit the same. HYPOCRITES!
This opposition is only a CLUB of CROOKED OLD-TIMERS, WHEELER-DEALERS trying to make money whichever way possible. They DO NOTHING FOR THE MWANANCHI!
RAO/ODM/NASA/NRM - DO NOT STAND ON THE MORAL HIGH GROUND they try to portray! They are LIARS of the highest order....USERS and MANIPULATORS of its unsuspecting, young and naive followers...THEY ARE TEARING OUR COUNTRY INTO PIECES!
AUKOT EKURU might be that alternative...AN OPPOSITION THAT KEEPS THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DAY ON ITS TOES....not one that just wants part of the loot to turn the other way.
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