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Day Three: Police block Raila, team from accessing MPs in cold cells

CORD leaders Raila Odinga and Hassan Joho at the Muthaiga Police station. (Photo: Courtesy)

Pangani Police Station was Thursday again the centre of protests as six male MPs readied to spend their third day in stinking cells as CORD principals led by Raila Odinga unsuccessfully tried to see them.

Cold, deflated but defiant, the troubled lawmakers refused to move out of their cells when Raila, Moses Wetang’ula, Kalonzo Musyoka and a host of other political leaders secured permission from Pangani OCS, Benjamin Kaselo, to see them.

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