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Dozens of individuals linked to Thursday's protests in Keroka town in Nyamira County in which President Uhuru Kenyatta’s effigy was buried have been arrested and are being held by police.
The suspects are detained at Keroka police station waiting to be arraigned in Court on Monday following an advice by local principal magistrate. Nyamira County Police Commander Titus Karuri confirmed the arrests, but declined to give more details on the same.
The protesters took streets in solidarity with Chief Justice David Maraga, who has become a victim of periodical attacks from the president and a number of Jubilee MPs.
Maraga, 66, and three other Supreme Court judges annulled President Uhuru Kenyatta's August 8th reelection on grounds that IEBC did not hold elections within the dictates of the constitution.
Civil groups and opposition leaders drawn from Nyamira, the home county of Maraga issued a joint presser where they condemned attacks on the CJ.
On Thursday, Nyeri town MP Ngunjiri Wambugu filed a petition with the Judicial Service Commission seeking removal of Maraga from office, a move that spark fury from different quarters. Wambugu has since withdrawn the ouster bid after President Uhuru prevailed upon him to drop it.
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When people of Mt Kenya and Kalenjins were busy fighting colonialist your forefathers were busy fishing, molesting chickens and hunting elephants. You should be happy that those who liberated your country also gave you a chance to get educated and acquire wealth in the same manner as those who sacrificed their lives so that you can have your freedom. Instead of using your brain to acquire wealth like Kalenjins and Mt Kenya region people you people like complaining on everything. Go to Eldoret, Meru, Nyandarua, Kiambu and see how poor people are and how hard they work for basic needs without complaining. Do you want the government to hand you food stamps so that you can there is a good government? Get life Imara and your hate mongers. You can take a buffalo from a forest but you cannot turn that buffalo into a cow. That saying define your people.
Kwamboka,true the Mt.Kenya,and Kalenjins were busy fighting colonialists.but you fail to emphasize that they were fighting for their land, in which the invaders had settled on. They were fighting the invaders.
Those molesting chickens were not invaded so they had no reason to become combative at that time.
So long as some tribe in one sector of Kenya thinks that they fought for independence, and the rest did not contribute much,we will forever be divided.
53 years after mzungu left Kenya to rule itself, we are still struggling and fighting among ourselves...What a shame.
This Mzungu actually united Kenya.Before then, we were living along tribal lines.We were never united as a country.But since we have a country we love and call Kenya, let forget all this tribal divisions,and unite as one Kenyan tribe.Divided we fall...
A vote for Uhuru is a vote for dictatorship returning back to Kenya. Death to Dictatorship!
uhuru and jubilee must understand that people of Kenya are not his subjects and that they every right to express their disapproval of your disrespect for Law. And we demand immediate release of those arrested for excersising their their constitutionaly protected rights.
you build a royal in Kiambu where you have stollen all our resources togther with moi.Mtalipa .Ruto ni Kondoo wa mwisho .kuiba na kukill watu sio ya wakale except for Moi amd Biwott and of kenyattas /kikyus.see what they are doing in kenya killing people even at their homes highways,kikyus you are the enemies of kenyans .everyone knows ata duni ,ISIs no 1
Keyboard warriors; can only attack a people while hiding behind the obscurity of the virtual space...that is what i call cowardice.
Yes, @Soldieron, cowardice it is...tell 'em idiots. Separate tribes from politics and Kenya moves to a higher level!
What are you high on? Nini imekurusha juu hivo.
Freedom of speech and expression; why are they being arrested?
Freedom of speech and expression is a great thing. Someone should burn Raila's ugly effigy to express the disgust we feel. It is all fair and commendable for people to enjoy their rights...
Go ahead Ben, whatever people wonna do as long as it's not criminal. Express your disgust.
Let them be castrated
@soldieron: You are wrong, what you are witnessing here is the work of the INTELLECTUAL AND OR INTELIGENCIA, the pen and the keyboard is the only bullet we have and we shall use it to the last one.
@Kawamboka Mako
When reasoning fails, insults take over. You don't seem to appreciate the sacrifices that our heroes of the second liberation did positively to the people of Kenya. Your mind is dormant like the mentally dead people of Zimbabwe.
You must have graduated from courses offered on line. How can you claim that only the Kikuyu and Kalenjin fought for the independence of Kenya?
How many Kalenjins were among the Kapenguria jailed Kenyans? None. There were members of the Luo, Kamba, and Kikuyu people.
It is true Mugabe fought for the independence of Zimbabwe. Look at Zimbabwe now! Unemployment is 90%.
When your alcoholic friend was busy praising dictator Toroitich by singing the " dictators " song, (tawala Kenya tawala), with you, Rubia, Anyona, Orengo, Raila, Matiba, Koigi, and many more others, were being subjected to torture in Nyayo House by your criminal dictator friend Toroitich.
I bet, you must be one or related to those who subjected our heroes of the second liberation in Nyayo House to unimaginable and inhuman mental and physical torture. That's why you like what alcoholic Uhuru is doing to the people of Kenya by resurrecting the Toroitich philosophy of intolerance.
Kawamboka Mako, you have spoken nothing and nothing but the truth. Unfortunately these morons will never learn because they do not understand what you are telling them. They do not want to use their brain and energy to improve their lives. They want a share of what the hardworking Kikuyus and Kalenjins have laboured for for free. They follow Baba like a god with the expectation that he will get them to canaan so that they can loot mali ya wakikuyu. But Salivating on mali ya wenyewe and following their stupid leaders blindly will not get them out of their self created problems. After all, there is a saying somewhere that " Mburi ya rwanio ikuaga o na rwanio".
Kenyan blood will not be spilled on behalf of the devil worshippers, those who are calling for death of our fellow kenyan will lose theirs ,'May the wickedness of the wicked come to an end' in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ Amen!!! We the people of Kenya who love God We place an impenetrable wall of The Holy Spirit Fire of coal of protection around Uhuru Kenyatta and his family and William Ruto and his family,in their comings and goings that the devil and other powers of darkness cannot bridge.Jehovah has called us to pray for this country without stopping,when hell breaks loose those who are full of hate are the first to be harvested for the devil cannot wait to give you up,for he is the father of lies, he came to kill,steal and destroy. Of course you may be safe those who are out of the country but your families and friends in kenya will not be. If people spent as much time praying for the country as you spend spreading hate,kenya would have been far by now, the energy of love is far superior and stronger than hate,( anger, anxiety,agitation, jealousy) all these other spirits from hell have no benefit for the country and its peoples other than upheaval and destruction.Its always easier to criticize than to build. We are called to pray for one another not to destroy one another.
Ujinga si wisdom and wisdom si ujinga. If those who are following the four blind mice think senseless militancy and fanatical loyalty is wisdom, let them hear that they are lost because they are fools.
Exactly. Canaan is wilderness!
Uhuru don't shut up about the people of Nyamira exercising their democratic non violent rights. You are practicing dictatorship. If you can't accept what these people are doing, resign immediately. We can't accept criminal Toroitich intolerance of people exercising their democratic rights in Kenya again. Resign. Do you understand me?