Protests in Kisumu over Miguna’s whereabouts.

By Dickson Odhiambo.

     

February 6, 2018.

Protests in Kisumu over Miguna’s whereabouts.

HUNDREDS of Kisumu City residents have poured into streets while protesting wanting to know the whereabouts of the National Resistance Movement self-Proclaimed General Miguna Miguna.

The protestors barricaded some routes towards the City Center especially along Kisumu-Kakamega Road near Kondele area where they had lit some bonfire before moving towards the central business District.

The protestors who were led by the Kisumu County Assembly Speaker Onyango Oloo and Market/Mlimani ward MCA Seth Ochieng Kanga chanted slogans of No Miguna No peace.

The protestors forced the operators of various businesses to abruptly close their shops while wanting them to join them in the protests.

“We are busy protesting against the whereabouts of our NRM General Miguna Miguna but you are busy going about your businesses,”  one of the protestors was heard lamenting.

They protested up to the City center following Jomo Kenyatta Highway then to Oginga Odinga Street before Kisumu County Assembly Speaker addressed them.

Oloo says the government must release Miguna unconditionally without any further delay.

Oloo says the Government should not continue to hold Miguna in the police cells without producing him in a court as ordered by the High Court Judge.

“We demand that the jubilee Government release Miguna Miguna unconditionally,” he says.

Oloo adds the Jubilee Government should not select a few Nasa leaders for arrests but should arrest all its supporters over the recent swearing-in of its leader Raila Odinga last Tuesday.

“They should not select only a few leaders in opposition for arrests but should consider arresting all of us as supporters of Nasa Coalition.

He says the Country might be ungovernable if the jubilee government continue to do things with a lot of impunity and fail to follow the rule of law.

“When the people takes control of their affairs then they have a right to refuse unjust laws,”Oloo adds.

Oloo tells off the United States Ambassador to Kenya Robert Godec to stop forthwith from meddling into the country’s affairs.

He says Kenya is a sovereign state which governs itself and no country like United States through its ambassador in the country should tell how it is governed.

“Foreign countries who are supporting the Jubilee regime should leave us alone to conduct our affairs and they should stop meddling into our affairs.We do not allow the neo-colonialism to be here with us again,”he further adds.

The protesters engaged the police i a running battle for several hours as police lobbed tear gas canisters  to disperse unruly protesters.

Police were also forced to fire live bullets in the air to disperse the protesters.

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