BREAKING: Murkomen has warned that any youth found carrying stones, machetes, matchsticks, or other weapons during the upcoming protests will face the strongest action from police and the law.
He says protests should be peaceful.
The problem is that most young people who attend protests have never carried weapons.
They carry placards.
They carry flags.
They carry frustration.
So when government officials focus heavily on stones, machetes, and weapons before a protest, most of us automatically know something is likely being cooked, and they may be laying justification grounds.
Because we've seen the script before.
Peaceful protests are announced.
Warnings are issued.
Then, suddenly, individuals carrying weapons(goons) appear, whom we have seen reports were sponsored by government-aligned leaders. The police then get justification to lob teargas on Kenyans and even shoot others.
The image of the protest gets damaged.
The conversation shifts away from the issues.
And the crackdown begins.
Murkomen should understand that Kenyans have become wiser. And we will be watching. Power is transient.
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🇰🇪🇺🇸 | Kenyan police shot dead a protester as hundreds demonstrated against a US quarantine facility in Nanyuki.
The facility is for US nationals exposed to Ebola. Not for Kenyans.
The protester was shot in the head and at least 19 people were arrested, according to Reuters, at the site where the US is building a 50-bed unit at Laikipia Air Base.
Kenya has no Ebola case of its own; the unit would hold US nationals exposed to the virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. It runs on roughly KSh 1.68 billion — about USD 13 million in US aid.
This is not the first killing: on 1 June police shot two protesters dead and arrested 31. Demonstrators call their country a "dumping ground" and have vowed to march until the plan is scrapped.
Washington says it "cannot and will not allow" any cases to enter US territory. Kenyan President William Ruto calls the deal "mutually beneficial" — while his own police keep killing the Kenyans who refuse it.