Nakuru County assembly minority leader Daniel Ambale has urged ODM supporters to oppose the Security Laws (amendments) Bill 2014 that was forcefully passed in the national assembly yesterday.
The ODM MCA alleged that MPs allied to the Jubilee coalition were not serving the public, but their masters as they were ‘being used’ to pass a bill that had been described by critics as draconian.
“I urge opposition supporters to rise against this law and support our leaders in the fight against it,” Ambale said.
“The government must do as is expected of it to provide security in the country but not to amend the law to infringe people’s rights.”
He observed that the MPs had met with the president after the bill was introduced in the house and convinced to support it without principle, a move he said violated their public service mandate in parliament.
According to Ambale, the controversial bill would create a police state and a dictatorial regime that violates the Kenyan constitution. He added that the Jubilee coalition was just creating shortcuts in the fight against insecurity in the country by ‘shortchanging’ the constitution.
Jubilee MPs relied on their numbers in parliament to pass the controversial Security Laws (amendments) Bill 2014 that the opposition and civil rights groups strongly opposed, arguing that it would violate fundamental human rights and creates a dictatorial police regime.