Uhuru Kenyatta farm

The CS says the protests occasioned operational constraints that saw officers delay in responding to the invasion.

Kindiki said that he will provide security to all persons whose private property has been violated and or looted during the protests. The CS also said the measures will also enhance security for all Kenyans and foreign nationals in Kenya to ensure that no person is exposed to insecurity. Speaking for the first time over the incident, the CS in a statement said the police were not able to respond swiftly to the invasion owing to the ongoing protests.

Nairobi, Kenya, Mar 29-In former President Uhuru Kenyatta's expansive Northlands Estate, life is slowly returning to normal, two days after more than ...

Odinga has vowed countrywide protests on Monday’s and Thursdays until the cost of living is brought down by the Kenya Kwanza administration while also protesting the victory he claims was stolen from by Ruto in the August 2022 elections. Odinga and other Opposition leaders have accused a section of leaders in the government of orchestrating an attack on Northlands farm and Odinga’s East Africa Spectre Limited, a gas company based in Embakasi. I mean what kind of confidence is that.” “They had machetes and power saws and when they turned violent, I decided to run for my life,” the vendor who declined to be named added that the goons stepped on some of his flowers and made away with some. A flower vendor who was in the area at the time of the incident says he was forced to abandon his business when the gang alighted from vehicles that ferried them there. On Monday, police fired tear gas in Nairobi and the western city of Kisumu — an Odinga stronghold — to disperse crowds, aiming canisters at cars carrying journalists in the capital, while looters went on the rampage.

Former President Uhuru Kenyatta speaking at a past event (left) and goons cutting down trees at the Northlands Farm on March 27, 2023 (right).

- Twilight30 March 2023 - 11:59 am He wondered how the police officers were not swift in responding to the situation. An excavator was also captured clearing the bush next to the fence.

Compared to reporting by the foreign press, Kenyan mainstream media was understandably restrained in its coverage of Monday's cost-of-living protests ...

And they will grab the beddings and curtains and load up the sofas to take away. He also has to be desperate to see as a great opportunity the chance to invade a political opponent’s farm, steal a goat, and slaughter it on the roadside to sell to by-passers for Ksh2,000. There were disturbing things about the scenes at Northlands farm, and it would open the gates of hell if it grew as a form of property redistribution in Kenya, but there still was a signal hidden in there. One of the targets of the protestors’ attack was the presidential palace. On social media, as the images of the invaders with goats and sheep strapped around their necks spread beyond Kenya, one of the discussions was about “Africans’ obsession with livestock”. “Looters descend on Kenyatta family farm, steal livestock,” the Monitor reported, and “Monday of high drama as gangs storm Kenyatta farm, Raila’s company,” The Citizen offered.