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Azimio la Umoja One Kenya coalition has written to police notifying them of their intention to hold protests in Nairobi every Monday and Thursday beginning March 27th.
In a notice delivered to Nairobi Regional Police Commander Adamson Bungei, the opposition coalition said the procession will take place in all major streets making up the Nairobi central business district from dawn to dusk.
“We, therefore, request your office to deploy enough police officers to guarantee security to attendees and exercise crowd control,” reads the notice.
The letter was delivered to Bungei at Nairobi Regional Police Headquarters by Azimio leaders Eugene Wamalwa, Jeremiah Kioni, Wycliffe Oparanya and Roots Party leader George Wajackoyah.
Oparanya stated that the letter was not an application for permission to hold mass action as none is required under Article 37 of the Constitution, which guarantees the right to assemble, demonstrate, picket and present petitions to public authorities.
He further said the coalition will only allow uniformed police officers to carry weapons during the protests and that plainclothes officers carrying weapons will be treated as thugs and hired goons, and will be “subjected to civilian arrests as permitted by law.”
“This is a notification to enable the police to provide adequate security to the demonstrators. By this notice; kindly provide adequate security,” he noted.
On Monday, Azimio leader Raila Odinga announced that anti-government protests will be held every Monday and Thursday from next week until President Ruto’s administration addresses their demands.
Odinga further urged his supporters to boycott the products and services of a number of companies, which he described as enablers and facilitators of the brutal and illegitimate Kenya Kwanza regime.
“…We call for the boycott of Safaricom, Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) and the Radio Africa Group particularity the Star Newspaper who have become enablers and facilitators of this brutal regime. These corporates have become the enemies of the people and are benefiting from the blood and tears of Kenyans,” he said.
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When people suffer and Pharoah does not hear, the plagues become necessary. What better way is there for liberation when those in power tule with impunity? To the streets, the oppressed should go.
When people suffer and Pharoah does not hear, the plagues become necessary. What better way is there for liberation when those in power rule with impunity? To the streets, the oppressed should go.
To call campanies that provides needed services,and products to Kenyans ENABLERS and FACILITATORS is to ignore their vital role they play in society.The import of their significance cannot be downplayed.How many workers are employed by Safaricom,KBC,and Radio Africa Group.Is Raila willing to foot their expenses should they lose their jobs?Or is that just the incidental cost?
If Raila has good ideas, let him publish them in one of the dailies,and have everybody see if they have any merit.
Just because a violent young troublemaker grows up in a political dynasty and always intiate golden handshakes does not mean he's no longer a thug.
SAMOEI KASHINDWA NA UONGOZI WA NCHI:
Samoei ameshindwa na uongozi wa nchi. Ningependa Raila aendelee kufuata Nyayo zake aliyekuwa rais wa Marekani Donald Trump.
Rais Donald, hajaacha siasa zake za kusema alishinda uchaguzi. Kwa nini Samoei haachani na Raila afanye mambo Donald Trup anayofanya Marekani?
Samoei: Jifunze siasa za watu wazima halafu ujifunze kutoka kwa Rais wa Marekani wa sasa Ndugu Joe Biden.
Rais wa Marekani wa sasa, hasemi chochote kuhusu mikutano Donald Trump anayofanya Marekani nzima. Samoei, mwache Raila afanye mikutano kama vile wewe mwenyewe uliyofanya kwa muda wa miaka mitano bila kumsaidia Rais Mstaafu Uhuru Ngina Kamau.
Ulipofanya mikutano yako (Samoei) kwa muda wa miaka mitano bila kufanya kazi, ulipokea ulinzi wa serikali, ulitumia magari ya serikali, ulipokea mshahara na marupurupu bila kufanya kazi yoyote.
Kusema kweli, hakuna rais yeyote katika jamhuri yetu ambaye ameyapora mali ya umma bila kufanya kazi yoyote kama wewe. Ulianza kupora mali ya umma 1992 pamoja na Jirongo.
Wakati umefika sasa urudi Sugoi na kuendelea kuwafuga kuku zako na kuuza mayai.
Raila's politics has no place in modern Kenya. This politics of people staying at home, and demolishing what has been built by all Kenyans will not work. It might get him to handshake, but not to the state house.