A contingent of General Service Unit (GSU) officers have engaged protestors in running battles at a road block near Blue Post Hotel in Thika.
The protestors, who included health workers, were Monday trying to forcibly gain entry into Thika town where most of them work.
The police said they were effecting a ban on movement into and out of the Nairobi Metropolitan area announced by the government nearly a month ago. The restricted inter-county movement is aimed at curbing the spread of Covid-19.
The road block in question is at the border of Murang’a and Kiambu counties.
GSU Deputy Commander Bashane Omar, who addressed the protesters, faulted the health workers, most of whom work in Thika town in Kiambu County, but reside in Murang’a County, for failing to furnish the police manning the road block with their photos, job identity cards and the health institutions they work for in order to prevent the resultant confusion.
