Lobby group files petition to have police facilitate peaceful procession to State House on Tuesday
Lobby group, Operation Linda Jamii wants police to facilitate peaceful procession to State House on Tuesday
Lobby group, Operation Linda Jamii wants police to facilitate peaceful procession to State House on Tuesday.
Operation Linda Jamii has filed a petition in court to have police facilitate protesters in their expected peaceful procession to the State House, Nairobi and all State Lodges.
Court documents show that the petitioner has notified the Inspector General of Police (2nd respondent) of the expected nationwide march scheduled for, Tuesday, July 30 which will see protesters present their petitions to the said premises.
Linda Jamii says that the processions will be made up of their members and Kenyans of good-will as they head to deliver the petitions to the house on the hill in Nairobi, and state lodges in Mombasa, Kisumu, Sagana, Nyeri, Eldoret, Nakuru, Kakamega and Kitale.
They stated that given the existing trends of the police force being used against peaceful protesters, the police IG should ensure that officers exercise restraint in the nationwide march.
“In all these protests, despite the fact that Kenyans have consistently communicated their intention to, peaceably and unarmed, express their disaffection with the regime on the streets, they have been met with untold violence, intimidation, torture, detention without trial, murder and enforced disappearances at the hands of the State,” reads the document in part.
The petitioner further faulted the Kenya Kwanza regime for deploying officers to intimidate Kenyans, breaching the provisions of the 2010 Constitution.
“The nation is quickly degenerating into a police state. Voices of dissent are being criminalized on a mass scale, due process is being denied those deemed to be against the regime, the horror of enforced disappearances and extra-judicial killings is back in full force,” they told the court.
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“The preamble to the Constitution of Kenya, 2010, recognises the aspirations of all Kenyans for a government based on the essential values of human rights, equality, freedom, democracy, social justice and the rule of law.”
A march to State House was first mobilized on June 27 at the height of the nationwide protests and heavily armed officers were strategically placed near the premises with no one allowed even to approach any of the entrances.
Military security were also deployed near State House to barricade all connecting roads.
The First Schedule of the Protected Areas Act recognises the State House and State Lodged as protected areas and any persons found within the premises without authorisation “shall be guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine not exceeding five thousand shillings, or to both such imprisonment and fine”
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