Lawmakers up in arms, Kenyans protest over insecurity countrywide

Demonstrators protesting on November 25 outside Harambee Avenue (PHOTO: Mbugua Kibera)

After daylong protests that erupted in waves of tear gas, the uproar over the Government’s handling of national security moved to Parliament where lawmakers declared the buck stopped with President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto, and demanded action.

The National Assembly and Senate last evening suspended normal business to discuss the spiraling insecurity following Saturday’s massacre of 28-19 men and nine women-in Mandera by Al-Shabaab gunmen who shot them in the head.