Activist Boniface Mwangi on Tuesday, September 2 vowed to stage a procession to State House to demand that President William Ruto takes decisive action on the increase in cases of abduction in the country.....CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE>>>
Speaking outside the Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi after the courts freed him together with four others in a case where they were charged with unlawful assembly, Mwangi blasted the President for not being honest in terms of securing the release of three Kenyans who were recently abducted by unknown individuals in Kitengela, Kajiado County.
The activist was joined by his counterparts who carried placards with names and photos of the three people who had been reported to be missing.
“We have been vindicated by the courts. We are free and we’re going home. But we can’t go home yet without talking about our brothers and sisters who are missing.
“When our lying president goes around saying there are no missing people, these are the missing people. We shall march to State House and give Ruto the list of missing people,” Mwangi remarked.
He further claimed that the three missing people were abducted by the police. “They were abducted by the state. There is evidence,” he added.
“The court gave an order for the police to produce them. They have refused to produce them. Our demand is to release these three men unconditionally.”
Mwangi spoke after securing release from custody in a case where he was accused of orchestrating the violence witnessed during the recent anti-government demonstrations.
He had been charged alongside four others for allegedly participating in an unlawful assembly and presiding over the publication of false materials.
The five secured their freedom after the court declined a two-week request by the prosecution to finalise the probe on the matter.
This comes after President Ruto had decried that he was not aware of any Kenyan who the country’s security agencies reportedly abducted during or after the recent spate of anti-government protests across the nation.
During the town hall meeting in Kisumu on August 29, Ruto instructedInterior Principal Secretary Raymond Omollo, who was also present, to take up the matter and ensure that the cases were followed to the letter and the missing individuals found.
“If there is a family, any family whose child or their friend or relative, went to a demonstration, last year or this year and never came back, I want to know the names,” Ruto directed.
“I will take firm and decisive action because as I talk to you today, I don’t have a single name of somebody who has been abducted or disappeared….CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ARTICLE>>>
