Dundori Ward MCA Stephen Kihara has supported the passing of the contentious security amendment bill arguing that it will restrain some leaders from politicising matters concerning security.
Kihara defended the Jubilee legislators for drafting and supporting the bill saying that it was their duty as government foot soldiers to support it in all ways.
He said: “I do not think Jubilee MPs are serving vested interests. They are simply trying to help the government manage terrorism and insecurity in the country.”
“This law will ensure that the opposition does not politicise insecurity matters but will help the government fight insecurity to the fullest,” added the MCA.
Kihara said the bill was not to create a ‘police state’ as being argued by the opposition, but give the government more powers in defending and protecting the lives of Kenyans.
He was reacting to claims by a section of Nakuru opposition leaders who wanted their supporters to rise against the new law.
The MCA said that President Uhuru Kenyatta and his security chiefs have been under pressure from the opposition and Kenyans to address insecurity and it is high time the opposition stopped frustrating the efforts being made by the government to restore security in the country.
Cord leader Raila Odinga has threatened to mobilise opposition supporters and civil rights groups in the country to hold street demos to protest against the passing of the bill. He stated that it has draconian clauses that promote dictatorship in a police like state while draining away the democratic gains the country had fought for.