Condemnation of Police Brutality against Coast Civil Society Activists
The Civil Society Fraternity at the Coast strongly condemn the barbaric brutality and arrest of 10 of its core Members, lead by Hussein Khalid of MUHURI, by the Kilifi Police. The activists had a constitutionally guaranteed right of expression and opinion. They too had a right to peacefully present their grievances and petition to the discredited Chairman of the Electoral Commission of Kenya ECK,
Mr Samuel Kivuitu and his equally discredited team. The ECK cannot burry it’s had in sand and pretend that nothing happened. It was the fiasco of the ECK results of the December 2007 Elections that lead to the death of not less than 1,000 innocent Kenyans and the displacement of another 500,000.

The discredited ECK cannot be allowed to continue wasting taxpayer’s money in opulent hotels with a business as usual attitude and to continue to enjoy impunity. This is totally unacceptable and must be vigorously resisted and rejected by all citizens. The Police are thus totally wrong in trying to defend people (ECK) who should themselves be charged with criminal negligence and crime against humanity.

The Police Action against the coast based activists is draconian, undemocratic and a threat to the fundamental freedoms of expression and opinion. The Police must be told in no uncertain terms that no amount of force, brutality, threats, intimidation or coercion will kill the resolve of the people to demand for the dissolution of the ECK and the prosecution of Kivuitu and his bunch of incompetent pretenders. WE DEMAND JUSTICE! KIVUITU MUST GO!!

We also demand the immediate and unconditional release of the Activist. The Police must stop political persecution of the people of this country whose only offence is to demand for their rights and justice.

RELEASE THE INNOCENT WOMEN IMMEDIATELY OR WE WILL ORGANIZE THE MOTHER OF ALL DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST THE POLICE. Our taxes are not freebies. Our taxes are our rights. Jacob Boaz Muoga (Sec. Gen.) Magak Michael (Chair) Coast Civil Society Congress +254723790623 / +254733951781 magakmf@yahoo.com / info@mabadilikocare.org

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