Former Ndaragwa Member of Parliament Jeremiah Kioni said Monday that random arrests and abductions of people were not right under the Uhuru regime and are also wrong under the present regime.
Amid recent arrests of leaders affiliated to Azimio la Umoja, Kioni said he had to switch off his phones to escape the police dragnet.
He said it was wrong and criminal for state agencies to track and trap people using mobile phones.
He added that he visited Ndaragwa anonymously on Sunday, to avoid being tracked by police.
“My phones were off… we have a recent phenomenon in our roads… they are called Subarus,” Kioni said.
“I haven’t used these phones since Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
I started using these things on Sunday.”
He went further to claim that the government uses its resources to track people via mobile phones, and to some extent, frame them.
“Today we have people who actually say no to this constitution, at least during that time (Jubilee regime) we never had somebody planting bhang; we never saw vehicles carrying Sudanese number plates being used to chase you down. But am not saying it was right then, it wasn’t even then, it is not right now, this is not the country we want to be in,” Kioni said in an interview with Spice FM on Monday.
Kioni blamed the National Assembly for failing to put the executive in check.
“Our Members of Parliament have dropped the guard, why we have three arms of government is that we have the balance and checks.
It is parliament that should have been able to come strong and tell the executive to hold it, that is beyond, we are not going to pass this budget; we are going to file a motion of impeachment.
The tools for checking an excessive Executive exist in Parliament. Parliament abandoned us from day one,” Kioni said.
The arrest of leaders and subsequent re-arrest within the confines of the court, Kioni claims, are signs of dictatorship.
Kioni further recounted the promises the Kenya Kwanza regime made to the people of Kenya, suggesting that the regime should be held to account and take responsibility for their promises.
He said demonstrations will continue until the government provides cheap Unga and lower the cost of living as earlier promised.
A number of leaders have been arrested in an operation to suppress the anti-government demonstrations over the high cost of living and the new Finance Act 2023.
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