Monday, February 6, 2023 –Raila Odinga has unveiled a new youthful movement dubbed Movement for the Defense of Democracy MDD.
Speaking during his anti-government rally held at Kamukunji Grounds in Kibra on Sunday February 5, Odinga said the young men and women will help restore sanity in the country.
This new opposition group is led by both former and current university leaders and whose main agenda is to protect democracy which they believe is under immense threat from the current regime.
Speaking in the rally, Pwani University students’ leader Fikirini Jacobs said that the country had lost hope in the electoral system.
On the other hand, while criticizing Odinga’s new MDD camp, Kericho Senator Aaron Cheruiyot said most of those young men and women might end up in jail and Raila will be nowhere to bail them out.
“When the coalition government was formed, many of them were left rotting in jail.
“The same repeated itself in 2018 when Raila went into a handshake with former President Uhuru Kenyatta,” Cheruiyot warned.
The National Police Act stipulates that it is illegal to imitate a disciplined officer by putting on clothes that could be interpreted as that of a trained officer.
“A person may though, with the approval of the Inspector-General, use police uniforms for artistic purposes,” the Act states.
In 2017 elections, dynamic Uhuruto duo had a similar group of women and youth led by former Women Representative Rachel Shebesh who were putting on military uniforms during their rallies.
“We are Uhuru’s army and we will defend him,” stated Waiguru in an interview then.
The then Inspector General of Police IG Joseph Boinet who was asked to explain what this means to the police; only said he will act if the uniforms are similar to theirs.
