Past NASA anti-IEBC demonstrations. [Photo|the-star]
As NASA plans to continue with its weekly anti-IEBC protests Monday, State House has warned that the demonstrations can not solve a problem.
Addressing the press, Sunday, State House spokesperson Manoah Esipisu, said NASA should abide by constitutional institutions to find a solution to every problem facing the country.
Below is his full response to NASA protests.
"We are telling Kenyans to turn up in large numbers to continue with their business as normal. That their businesses will be protected, that security will be in full force to ensure that people and their property are not infringed upon, and that to the extent that the demonstrations are peaceful, they are allowed under our Constitution, they can sing, they can match, they can walk, they cannot throw stones, they cannot beat up people, they cannot lynch at anyone.
Those things that are not allowable within the Constitution, they cannot do. But we are telling Kenyans that demonstrations will not fix the problem. The Supreme Court clearly said, Parliament. Parliament is working on what it needs to do. Now also let me just mention on this, there is a group of people in this country who think that whenever there is a national issue that needs to be sorted it must be removed from Parliament.
And I ask them why did we elect a Parliament? Why do we vote for these institutions? Why do we give them budget. If any time we have to make a decision, a decision that can be decided by the existing institutions, why do we move outside the institutions.
Moving outside institutions that are established to do this work, you will know, is no more demagogue, so demagogues will do this type of things because you thrive outside the established space, you thrive in anarchy. But this country has institutions, so demagogues really have to find their place because institutions in this country will be allowed to run."