Daggers have now been drawn between president William Ruto and opposition chief Raila Odinga after the latter moved to further dare the government calling for bi-weekly anti-government protests to be held on Monday and Thursday’s every week.
While making the announcement a day after a daylong violent protests by Azimio One Kenya Coalition leaders and supporters engaging police in running battles in six counties, Raila and his team said the decision to call for mass protests twice a week was due to “public demand.” He said.
“Fellow Kenyans, in the second phase of our protest, and in response to public demand, we shall now hold the protests every Monday and Thursday beginning next week.” Raila declared.
He spoke today at the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Foundation Center in Nairobi accompanied by his co-principals Martha Karua, Kalonzo Musyoka, Eugene Wamalwa, Wycliffe Oparanya and Edwin Sifuna among a host of other leaders.
At the same time, he called for public boycott of three corporates for what he termed as being “facilitators of the Kenya Kwanza government.”
“We call for the boycott of Safaricom, Kenya Commercial Bank and Radio Africa Media particularly the Star Newspaper who have become the enablers and facilitators of this brutal regime.” Raila asserted.
Meanwhile, he claimed there was an attempt on his life and that of Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka during the anti-government demos in which one protestor, a Third Year Maseno University student was fatally shot yesterday.
“Those responsible must be held to account and there was also an attempt on my life as well as Kalonzo Musyoka’s as the police shot at our cars.” He claimed.