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With the recent arrests of Babu Owino, Aladwa, Kajwang and Miguna Miguna we are undoubtedly seeing an Idi Amin Dada style of ruthless dictatorship emerging in Kenya. We are seeing an increasingly unpopular president trying to hang on to power by all means possible and if that takes mercenaries and subverting the law to make it happen then Uhuru’s mindset is “so be it.”

The similarities between Uhuru and Idi Amin Dada are so identical it is terrifying. The plainclothes enforcers who abduct citizens forcefully without regard for law and with no arrest warrant served on subjects. The transportation of citizens to undisclosed locations and denial of legal representation which is not just the basic right of everybody arrested but a universal law enforced in every part of the civilized world. Detention without due process is the hallmark of a true dictator.