Police teargassing protesters in Nairobi during a Nasa protest. [Photo: Reuters]
The police have vowed not to allow the Nasa rally at Jacaranda grounds in Embakasi to go on this Tuesday.
This could see a repeat of a showdown between police and NASA supporters like the one when they were welcoming their leader Raila Odinga at the airport from his US visit.
Nairobi Police Commander Japhet Koome has said the venue would be a no-go zone insisting that Nasa has not notified the area OCS.
According to The Star, NASA lawyer Edwin Sifuna wrote to the Embakasi Station OCS James Ekwenye and copied the notification letter to Koome.
"Our clients shall hold a memorial on Tuesday 28th November 2017 at Jacaranda Grounds within Nairobi County for the 25 innocent Kenyans who met their untimely deaths at the hands of police and regime sponsored killer gangs in the past few weeks," reads part of the letter as quoted by the Star.
However, Koome dismissed the letter saying the planned prayer event is illegal adding that NASA notified the wrong area police boss instead of notifying the Soweto Station OCS under whose jurisdiction Jacaranda Grounds falls.
"The law says anyone planning to hold any procession, public meeting or demonstration should notify the OCS of the area at least 24 hours before the scheduled time for the event," Koome told the Star on Sunday via phone.
NASA CEO Norman Magaya on his part accused Koome of plotting to disrupt the meeting and insisted that they are done with notifying the police.
"Koome is just playing games. If he wants to break up the meeting, it is fine let's meet there and break it up. We have been compiling a long list of people who are being killed on his orders," Magaya said.
He added: " The international crimes against humanity laws are applicable in this country and we are going to sue no other person other than Japheth Koome himself."