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MPs' 'miserable' date with reality

20th June, 2016

Finally to my take on the dramatic events that we saw in the country this week. Eight people, six of them men and two women are accused of hate speech, there is a public outcry. Then they are all dramatically rounded up in the city and are locked away at two police stations for three nights. On any other day, this episode would have passed without incident – after all spending as long as one week in a police cell incommunicado is just the kind of thing thousands of Kenyans deal with all the time. But no, these were not ordinary Kenyans – or so they told us – they were members of parliament – the august house. Four days after the arrests, one of their lawyers, John Khaminwa made a most amazing submission in court. He pleaded with the magistrate to release these MPs since, in his words, ‘they were living in deplorable conditions’. He went further to state that the eight should not have been subjected to the conditions he described as inhumane.
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