The Jubilee administration has yet again come under scathing attack from a top youth leader from Nyamira County, few days after its top leadership visited the region.
President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto made their first official trip to the South Nyanzan County since their election in 2013.
But Orange Democratic Party Youth League Chairperson Dennis Marube on Wednesday labeled the Jubilee government 'dictatorial', using analogical Idi Amin Dada, a former Ugandan leader.
“Kenya is becoming an Idi Amin Dada state where opposition is not allowed to democratically convene. The government is scared when the opposition questioned its way of governance and they revert to using excessive powers by deploying police officers,” Marube said.
“The nation is slowly being converted to autocratic state and this isn’t a good sign for what our people fought hard in 90s. Democracy is no longer respected in the country because police are being used wrongly,” he added.
He demanded that the government apologise following two separate incidents where supporters of the opposition were teargassed in front of their leadership.
“Yesterday at Huruma you saw police brutally beating people and teargassing them in front of our leaders. The same happened outside IEBC headquarters and this shows how the state is reverting to intimidation and dictatorship. They ought to apologize to the people,” Marube added.
He challenged the government to accept criticism from the opposition rather than subjecting its leadership to intimidation by going to an extent of withdrawing their security details.