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Police officers face backlash over ‘absurd’ charges against CORD legislators

Machakos Senator Johnstone Muthama was among those charged

NAIROBI: Draft charges against CORD MPs accused of hate speech, circulated on social media on Tuesday may expose grave weaknesses in initial police prosecutions and investigations.

The charges, on the basis of which the legislators became “guests of the state” from Tuesday morning, were widely ridiculed on social media prompting denials that they were not the final charges to be preferred against them.

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