NASA leader Raila Odinga address supporters in Mathare, Nairobi County, August 13, 2017. [Photo|Raila Odinga]Opposition leader Raila Odinga, on Sunday, asked his supporters to boycott work on Monday.He held his first rally at Kamukunji Grounds in Kibra, Nairobi County, after losing the presidential election to incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta, in the August 8 polls.However, Raila said he was rigged out. The lose aggrieved his supporters im sections of Nairobi, Kisumu, Siaya and Homa Bay counties, prompting them to take to streets protesting, last week Friday night, immediately after Uhuru was declared president elect.The police however reacted, a move that Raila said was well orchestrated by Uhuru's Jubilee government, to kill his supporters.Various people were killed, hence the decision by Raila, to ask Kenyans to boycott work, so as to mourn with the affected families."As we mourn Kenyans killed by Jubilee mandated death squads, let's observer tomorrow (Monday) as the day of mourning for the fallen patriots," Raila noted, flanked by various ODM party leaders.He also took issue with the international community, saying it went mute, when Nasa warned that Jubilee was planning to conduct killings, targeting its supporters, after the polls."For weeks before 8th August, Nasa warned the world of Jubilee killer squads set to be unleashed after the polls. This wasn't taken seriously," added Odinga.Raila also visited the family of 8-year-old Moraa Nyarangi, in Mathare North, who was allegedly shot by a stray bullet by the police, while playing at the balcony of her house, during day of protests.
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