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15 CORD supporters arrested as police disperse anti IEBC demo

2019-01-23 0 Dailymotion

At least 15 supporters of the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) have been arrested after police dispersed their protest against Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission.<br /><br />Several other protesters also sustained injuries during the demonstration outside IEBC offices at Anniversary Towers on the University Way.<br /><br />“We also confiscated 6 motorbikes,” Central police Chief Paul Wanjama told Capital FM News.<br /><br />He did not however say whether they will be arraigned in court and over what offence.<br /><br />Police lobbed tear gas canisters and used water cannons to break up the sit just as Senator James Orengo had started addressing them.<br /><br />CORD principals Raila Odinga, Kalonzo Musyoka and Moses Wetangula were seated on the tarmac on University Way listening to Orengo when tear gas canisters rained on them.<br /><br />“Who killed Juma (controversial businessman Jacob Juma)?” it is the question Senator James Orengo, who was by then addressing the protestors, posed.<br /><br />The next minute; everyone was scampering for safety.

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