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State sponsored goons attack journalists and protestors along Waiyaki Way during Justice For Ojwang Protests on June 17, 2025. [File, Standard]
Signals of goodwill from the State can be very confusing. As the Makau Mutua taskforce was buoying up Kenyans with thoughts of remorse over State-fronted extra-judicial killings and maiming of citizens, the same State was inflicting fresh offensives against the people’s liberty.
Nairobi’s bare-faced goon invasion and desecration of the All Saints Cathedral, last week, was a playback to the 1990s. It is recalled that, in that season, gun-toting State agents repeatedly and violently followed into the sanctuary votaries of multiparty democracy.
In March 1992, the State dispersed from Uhuru Park women protesters, who wanted their sons released from political prison. Among them were the mothers of politicians Koigi Wa Wamwere and Mirugi Kariuki. The women’s flight from gunshots and teargas ended up at the cathedral. They were protected in the basement of the All Saints, for three days, during which the police laid the cathedral under siege.
