March 10 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has announced the beginning this Friday of a series of mobilizations against the Government that will culminate on March 20 with the celebration of the “mother of all protests” despite warnings from the authorities to refrain. to call people to the streets and bet instead on a concerted dialogue in which to present their complaints about the result of the last elections.
The marches will begin this Friday in Migori county, before continuing this weekend in the form of a “caravan” led by the Azimio La Umoja One Kenya coalition led by Odinga, which will visit Narok (on Saturday), Mombasa (on Sunday) and Kilifi (Monday) before culminating within two Mondays in a great march through the capital, Nairobi, according to the Kenyan newspaper ‘The Standard’.
“That day, in the mother of all protests, we have an appointment with destiny,” said Odinga.
The protests take place after the end of Odinga’s ultimatum to the country’s president, William Ruto, who was given two weeks to present the data from the electoral servers during the August elections last year.
The elections ended up being decided by the country’s Supreme Court with an opinion unanimously supported by the seven magistrates that make up the court, but Odinga has categorically rejected the verdict and, over the months, has also accused Ruto of inability to time to contain the rise in prices and, as he recalled at the rally, to “suffocate all Kenyans with taxes.”
At the end of last month, sources close to the Kenyan government indicated to the newspaper ‘The Nation’ that the authorities are contemplating the possibility of starting a political operation to demand that Western countries sanction Odinga, as he had already proposed to his senator Samson Cheragei, who asked the ex-prime minister to withdraw any international privilege that he could still enjoy based on his past position at the head of the Kenyan government.
“‘Tinga’ (Odinga) should lose all the privileges he was given locally and internationally given his former position as prime minister. The international community, as a rule, places restrictions on people who foment civil strife against legitimate governments,” has declared.
Officially, the government has so far rejected any measure against Odinga, according to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and the Diaspora, Alfred Mutua. “The Government does not have time to get entangled in Mr. Odinga’s endless political theater. We are not on a witch hunt. If he wants to demonstrate, let him do so,” he added to the Kenyan newspaper, before recalling that the authorities will punish any incitement to the violence.
