Heavy Police Presence In Nairobi Ahead Of planned Protests

A heavy contingent of police officers has been deployed in different parts of Kenya’s capital Nairobi on Monday morning ahead of anti-government protests. team of Kenya Anti-riot police erected roadblocks at all roads leading to the State House ahead of the Azimio la Umoja anti-government protests. Police were also heavily deployed at various streets and avenues in the city.

Many shops were closedin anticipation of Azimio protests. Meanwhile public transport was hardly available including railway transport . Kenya Railways suspended all its operations attributing the decision to “unavoidable circumstances.”

Even though the government has maintained that the protests are illegal, Opposition leader Raila Odinga said that the protests will go on as planned.

The Opposition Chief noted that the constitution allows Kenyans to demonstrate peacefully and that they do not need the permission of police to stage protests.