Nairobi MCAs Issue 3 Demands to President Ruto after Abduction of 5 Colleagues

A section of Nairobi County Assembly has exploded on President William Ruto for allegedly sanctioning brutality by state law enforcers on them.

The ward representatives allied to the Azimo La Umoja Coalition claimed their colleagues had had it rough at the hands of the police during the previous week's mass action protests.

They claimed their fellows were abducted and tortured, their only crime being associated with the opposition.

In a statement addressed to the president, the MCAs stressed the provision in the current constitution okaying the freedom and right to picket and politically associate.

"The constitution was crafted to protect the rights of every citizen, irrespective of their political affiliations or beliefs. It protects the right to freely express oneself and associate with others," they said.

The MCAs claimed to have been apprehended arbitrarily are Wilfred Odalo (Mabatini), Redson Onyango (Ngei), Peter Imwatok (Makongeni), Peter Owera (Huruma), and Alvin Palapala (Kitusuru) among others.

The leaders accused the president of overstepping his mandate; they asked him to maintain legal boundaries.

"We have passed through hotter furnaces to qualify to represent the bottom of the pyramid. We will recognise and respect your authority if you respect the legal boundaries of your own mandate," they said.

The MCAs also petitioned the president pronounce himself on state officers undertaking ethnic profiling in various parts of the country.

"We condemn the ethnic profiling taking place here in the city and Nyanza. Young Luo men and women are being pulled out of their homes in Kisumu and parts of Nairobi and killed in cold blood," they said.