Kenyans are calling for the arrest and prosecution of Daadab Member of Parliament, Farah Maalim after a video of him making inflammatory remarks against young Kenyan protesters went viral.
In the undated video, Maalim, speaking in Somali, stated that if he were President of Kenya, he would have “slaughtered” 5,000 young protesters daily.
A verified translation of the video reveals Maalim criticizing the Kenyan Gen Zs for their attempt to march to the State House during the anti-finance Bill 2024 protests.
He claimed that the young protesters were from wealthy backgrounds, and brought to the capital to create chaos.
“This was an attempted coup, a clear attempted coup. Children of wealthy business owners, wealthy parents, and kids raised on ill-gotten wealth, 80% from one tribe were dropped off in downtown and told to riot and take over State House and Parliament buildings,” he stated.
Maalim emphasized that if he were in power, he would have dealt with the protesters harshly.
“God forbid if I was president I would have slaughtered them, 5,000 of them daily. Serious, there is no two ways about it,” he said.
Despite clear evidence showing the video was not edited, Maalim claimed it had been doctored and misrepresented. During an interview with KTN News on Tuesday, he suggested that his adversaries were behind the video.
“It’s all editing, cutting and pasting, taking a word from here, another one from here and putting it together.
There is a lot of nonsense there.
It’s Somalis basically who would do that because I weighed in on their politics.
It’s not the true picture,” he asserted.
Maalim defended his comments, explaining that his statement was a protest against attacks on critical national facilities. He compared the situation to other nations that have experienced similar unrest, leading to anarchy.
“The one thing I said is…when you say that you’re taking over State House, you’re occupying State House and you’re occupying Parliament, two constitutional institutions that are a bedrock on the stability of the country and the democracy that we practice,” he explained.
“I’m actually trying to sound serious alarms in saying that these headless things called a popular movement, a revolution, we’ve seen it in many places and we’ve seen it in Sudan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, and the results are always invariably devastating.”
Attempts to reach Maalim for further comments were unsuccessful.
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