Attacked a company linked to the family of the opposition leader in the midst of the call for protests against the Government
March 27 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Around a hundred people broke into a farm owned by former President Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday in the outskirts of the capital, Nairobi, while a group of unidentified people caused material damage to a company linked to the family of the opposition leader, Raila Odinga. .
According to information collected by the Kenyan newspaper ‘The Standard’, the people who have entered Kenyatta’s property have cut down trees using chainsaws and have stolen several heads of cattle before setting fire to part of the farm, events that have resulted in a injured journalist.
Subsequently, a second group of people has caused material damage and has broken several windows at the headquarters of the East Africa Specter Limited company, linked to the Odinga family, with no arrests to date.
The head of the building’s security company, Humphrey Waswa, has stated that “about 50 people have arrived aboard motorcycles escorted by four Land Cruisers without license plates.” “They have subsequently escaped”, he has denounced, without there being any information on injuries for now.
The incidents have taken place amid the rise in tensions in recent weeks, in which Odinga has called for mobilizations against the Government due to the increase in the cost of living. The Kenyan Executive has reinforced the deployment of security this Monday in Nairobi before a new day of protests, which have not received authorization.
The former prime minister has called mobilizations every Monday and Thursday to protest the high cost of living and against the government, which he considers illegitimate for considering the August 2022 elections fraudulent, which he ran for with the support of Kenyatta . In the elections, William Ruto prevailed with 50.5 percent of the votes, as validated by the Supreme Court, although Odinga denounced fraud.
