Raila Junior. [Photo| Courtesy]Raila Odinga Junior, son to Opposition leader Raila Odinga, has responded after Nairobi police commander Japheth Koome said NASA leaders and supporters will not be allowed at Uhuru Park on Tuesday, January 30, 2018.NASA had chosen the park as the venue of the controversial swearing-in of their leaders Raila and Kalonzo Musyoka as president and deputy president respectively.However, addressing the media on Friday, Koome said NASA had not formally informed him of their event and therefore he would not allow any group to access the premises. In response, Raila Junior asked Kenyans to turn up in large numbers so as to protect themselves from police brutality. "Just recently Japhet Koome asked Kenyans to walk in small groups to save themselves from CBD criminal gangs ,kenyans are also encouraged to come out in large numbers to save themselves from extreme police brutality and injustices," Odinga tweeted on Sunday. He added that police are supposed to provide citizens with security and not any other function."Perhaps someone should ask Japhet Koome if police officers are going to be incharge of Uhuru Park renovation,then that must be a tender wrongly awarded because police officers are only mandated to provide security to citizens," the former prime minister's son he noted.

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