TESO LEADERS WANT APS OUT OF KAUNYA’S SECURITY DETAIL

From: Olita Reuben

Teso leaders today demanded the unconditional withdrawal of Administration Police officers from guarding the Deputy Provincial Commissioner, Oku Kaunya and their places taken over by either the regular police or prison officers.

Led by Labour Assistant Minister Sospeter Ojaamong, Teso County Council Chairman, Moses Otee and Malaba Town Council chairman, Chrisantus Ipala, the leaders condemned death threats directed at their son saying it was a threat to the Iteso Community as a minority group.

Addressing the press at Malaba Town Council Hall, the leaders said the AP unit wants to eliminate Mr. Kaunya, thus the need to have their officers withdrawn from providing security to the Nyanza Central Deputy PC.

Ojaamong, who is also the Amagoro Member of Parliament, said they were concerned that whenever people from the community rose to prominence they became targets of elimination from security state agents.

He said the community was to date still asking who killed former area MPs Ojaama Ojaamong Senior and Stephen Achiya Echakara, former Nairobi University student leader Titus Adungosi, adding that former area MP Oduya Oprong was still living with a bullet lodged in his head with no answer as to the motive of his attempted murder.

In a statement read by Councillor Otee, the leaders said it is in the public domain that people they know to be state security agents have been conducting surveillance Missions targeting places of interest to Mr. Kaunya.

The leaders demanded an explanation from the AP Force Commandant, Kinuthia Mbugua who sent two of his senior officers who were arrested in Malaba and other towns in Western Kenya and the Short Text messages that were sent to Mr. Kaunya’s security detail.

They said considering the events of the past few months, they were convinced beyond reasonable doubt that somebody was indeed baying for the blood of their son and many others of national stature.

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