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Tension In Kisii Ahead Of Rally
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- Published on Sunday, 22 July 2007 23:49
Organisers of the rally were yesterday busy distributing leaflets and pasting up posters at strategic places. The posters urge people to attend the rally, scheduled to be addressed by pro-reform MPs led by Ugenya MP James Orengo.
The Kisii police boss, Mr. Anderson Wambugu, yesterday cautioned Kisii residents against attending the controversial meeting. Mr. Orengo was on Sunday beaten by the police, who broke up a meeting he was addressing in the town.
Two other MPs - Mr. Njeru Kathangu and Mr. Waithaka Mwangi - escaped arrest when they vanished in the crowd.
Mr. Orengo and two other Opposition activists were later taken to court in Kilgoris. The trio are out who were charged with organizing an illegal assembly were released on bond.
The OCPD said the movement was an "illegal political organisation". He said the police will not allow its proponents to address the public in Kisii.
He said the movement's leader - Mr. Orengo - erred last weekend by addressing an illegal gathering at the proposed venue before he was cleared by the police.
The Kisii Central acting District Commissioner Mr. Walfa Osman when contacted declined to commend on the rising tension saying the issue did not fall under the docket of his office.
"At the district security committee level we are yet to discuss the impending meeting for it is the police who are handling it," he said.
The organisers - who did not want named for fear that they may be arrested on the eve of the rally - said the meeting will proceed on starting at 9 am. They said they will ignore threats by the police to disrupt it.
Public service vehicles plying the Homa Bay- Migori Oyugis- Kilgoris road were dotted with posters promoting the meeting.
