The Kisumu Governor Anyang’a Nyong’o has released a press statement on what he term as hooligansm during Azimio protest.
Nyong’o say this morning, Kisumu residents joined the rest of Kenyans in participating in peaceful demonstrations against the Kenya Kwanza Government.
The demonstrations, the county boss says, were largely peaceful until a few hooligans whose mission is yet to be established, infiltrated the crowd and started destroying property.
These criminals, he details, posing as opposition supporters stonned and damaged part of a hotel, a bank, Supermarket and a shopping Mall within the Central Business District.
“I wish, on behalf of the people of Kisumu, to strongly condemn this cowardly and criminal act. As the Governor of this County I wish to reiterate that we stand for peaceful and orderly picketing with zero attack on individual or publie property and investments.” He said.
He added: “to this end, I wish to appeal to the police to urgently open investigations to not only identify and arrest the culprits but to establish if it could be true that they had been sponsored by some groups or individuals to tarnish the name of Kisumu residents and Azimio La Umoja supporters as violent.”
Nyong’o continued to appeal to the people of Kisumu to help protect the image and investments in the City and its environs.
“In future demonstrations, Our people should uprehend and hand over to the police, anyone damaging property.
We also appeal to the police to help protect lives and property during public demonstrations.” he said.
