Weekly demonstrations staged by the opposition before repeat presidential elections will resume, Siaya Senatopr James Orengo said on Saturday.
This time, NASA will protest Uhuru Kenyatta’s re-election.
Orengo insists that as far as NASA is concerned, there were no elections; it was a sham.
“We urge all our supporters to prepare for the demos because this will also be a kick off for the preparation for the one million man march,” said the Siaya Senator who is also Raila Odinga’s point man according to the Star.
NASA which seeks to transform to a rebel movement-National Resistance Movement will stage an uprising against Uhuru’s presidency starting December.
The will be preceded by the inaugural launch of People’s Assembly touted to a One-Million-Man march.
People’s Assembly is another wing of the opposition seeking to transform to a resistance movement. It comprises elected leaders, civil society groups/personalities, women and youths.
NASA which held a rally in Kibera also demanded compensation for Maasai herders in Laikipia whose cattle were shot dead during a police operation on Thursday.
“Shooting dead those animals is the equivalent of burning or cutting down coffee or tea plantations in Central Kenya and the Rift Valley or setting a flame to acres of sugar cane plantations in Western Kenya and sinking hundreds of fishing boats in Nyanza, Turkana and the Coast.
“Shooting dead those animals is the equivalent of burning or cutting down coffee or tea plantations in Central Kenya and the Rift Valley or setting a flame to acres of sugar cane plantations in Western Kenya and sinking hundreds of fishing boats in Nyanza, Turkana and the Coast.
“This country must accept that it has pastoralists, farmers and other economic groupings and that together, all the groupings contribute to the economic well-being of the nation. No single economic activity must be viewed to be superior to the other.”
Pastoralists and ranchers in Laikipia have been embroiled in disagreements for a while.
The opposition leaders now say time is rife for government to draw a strategy that will allow both parties live in coexistence.
“We also demand a clear policy for co-existence between the ranchers and the pastoralists from whom the lands were taken. Nobody must be condemned to inferior livelihood and criminalized for their chosen way of progressing economically.”