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Protesters #OccupyHarambeeAve over insecurity

“Now just imagine what life is like for those at the frontline of this war, at the Kenya-Somalia border. I mean isn’t it just common sense that we should have sufficient troops there? Why did 28 Kenyans have to die for Kimaiyo to deploy more troops there?” Mathenge challenged.

Also present at the sit-in was Kakamega Senator Boni Khalwale who sang, danced, chanted and sat, in unison with the protesters.

“Ruto come out, Uhuru come out,” he demanded as he walked between the Office of the President and that of the Deputy President.

But they did not emerge and there was no petition to present either, “it was torn by the knife-wielders,” Mwangi said. “We will present something else in place of that.”

And that they did.

As has come to be expected of protests Mwangi is involved in organising, there was a pièce de résistance that effectively brought the sit-in to an unceremonious end.

Gathering their crosses, the protesters formed a larger cross at the centre of the road and dumped their water bottles on top of it. And when four miniature coffins arrived, set it ablaze.

Right on cue, the anti-riot police jumped to action lobbing tear gas canisters into the air and dispersing the protesters; reclaiming Harambee Avenue right on time for the rush hour traffic.

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