Outrage after Gabriel Oguda, and other vocal social media users abducted
Gabriel Oguda, Osama and several social media users and content creators are missing after they were abducted overnight ahead of Tuesday's protests
Gabriel Oguda, Osama and several social media users and content creators are missing after they were abducted overnight ahead of Tuesday’s protests.
Several social media users and content creators are missing after they were abducted in overnight operations in the country hours to anti-Finance Bill demonstrations.
Gabriel Oguda, a popular social commentator and vocal critic of President William Ruto’s government is among those missing with reports indicating that he was abducted in the wee hours of Tuesday.
Oguda’s brother Zachary posted online that the newspaper columnist was whisked away from his house by men believed to be police officers.
“Any tweets coming from @gabrieloguda were already scheduled. HE ISN’T SAFE,” Zachary added in a post some minutes past 4 a.m.
Others are people behind the X pages Franje, Drey Mwangi, and Osama Otero, among others.
Osama Otero who has been holding popular X Spaces opposing the Finance Bill 2024, was also reportedly abducted by unknown people.
In what appeared to have been a coordinated roundup, Osama Otero, tweeted about strangers at his home almost the same time as Oguda.
“Guys are outside where I am,” his last post which has since gone viral read.
Police have not officially commented on the issue.
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The latest cases add to other protesters who were captured over the weekend such as Shadrak Kiprono, alias Shad Khalif, who was abducted on Saturday night in Nairobi’s South B area and whose whereabouts remain unclear.
The Law Society of Kenya (LSK) in a statement on Tuesday morning condemned the abductions as a return to darkness.
LSK President Faith Odhiambo vowed that the lawyers’ body will bring those orchestrating the abductions to book.
“Over the last 72 hrs, Kenya has been drawn back to the dark era of a rogue, irrational police force operating through repressive, retrogressive, clandestine, illegal, extra-judicial tactics to forcefully quell public dissent against misgivings of government, lapses in governance and more specifically, the contentious Finance Bill 2024,” Odhiambo said.
“We will unmask and take action against these rogue criminal elements putting our police in ruin.”
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