There are plans to plant goons among Azimio La Umoja demonstrators tomorrow, to paint the coalition in bad light, former Defence Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa has claimed.
He says that while Azimio leaders and supporters are planning peaceful demonstrations in Nairobi, there are plans to cause mayhem and have it blamed on the opposition coalition for political reasons.
Wamalwa claims that to achieve this, there are plans by the rival side to plant hooligans among their people, who are to cause chaos and result in the entire exercise being branded chaotic and violent.
He has noted that as a result, Kenyans should be able to distance anybody seen engaging in violence from Azimio supporters, maintaining that anybody who will engage in such does not belong to Azimio.
"We know there are plans by some elements who want to infiltrate our protesters so that they cause chaos. We are aware of this and we are telling them that we will be looking out. Anyone who starts any violence, that’s not an Azimio person and we will not allow any violence," he has told The Sunday Nation.
This comes as an echo to what Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka said at the Mazembe Grounds in Nakuru earlier in the week, that the Kenya Kwanza side plans to plant goons among Azimio protesters.
Wamalwa has also claimed that they have also been receiving threats and intimidation, both direct and indirect like withdrawal of their security detail.
He claims that the plan is to try and force them out of the demos, something he has said will not happen, declaring that their stand remains the same and they are ready for a long battle.
"All our security was withdrawn. We have received all sorts of threats but we are prepared. We know that some of us have been targeted for trumped-up charges just as my former colleague Dr Fred Matiang’i. But we are prepared, not intimidated and we will not be intimidated. We are in this for the long hog," he has added.
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