NASA Threatens to Call for Civil Disobedience

National Super Alliance (Nasa) has threatened to call for civil disobedience if President Kenyatta fails to stop the ongoing crackdown on opposition hardliners.

The opposition outfit further demanded the government to stop disregard of court orders as recently witnessed.

Nasa leaders said that if the President fails to meet the demands by coming weekend, they will ask opposition supporters to stop cooperating with any government agency and disregard the law, until the state halts the arbitrary arrest of its leaders.

Led by National Assembly Minority Leader John Mbadi, the leaders wondered why Kenyans should obey the law, when government has "effectively suspended the rule of law and buried the Constitution without declaring so."

"Kenya is a democracy and not anarchy and if this trend does not stop immediately, then beginning this weekend, we shall ask all currently law-abiding citizens to stop obeying those laws, stop cooperating with law enforcement agencies, and stop cooperating with the Government and government agencies," Mbadi said.

They also alleged that there is a plan by government to assassinate Dagoretti North Member of Parliament Simba Arati and his Embakasi East counterpart, Babu Owino.

The leaders further condemned the deportation of former Nairobi gubernatorial aspirant Miguna Miguna to Canada, describing it as 'the height of impunity' by the Jubilee administration and a violation of the Constitution.