Activists Boniface Mwangi and Hanifa Adan presented themselves at the DCI headquarters along Kiambu Road on Monday, June 24, in the company of ex-Chief Justice Willy Mutunga.
Speaking to the press moments after making their way there, Mwangi claimed that had gone to hand themselves to the police because they did not want be abducted on the streets.
The activist disclosed that they had a right to dissent wondering why President William Ruto was calling for dialogue with Gen Z while some of the young people were being abducted.
“We came to hand over ourselves to the police because we don’t want to be abducted in the streets. Why should we be afraid of living in our own country? They want to kill us for expressing our rights to dissent.
“It is our right to dissent. We want to tell the president, you want to dialogue and you’re abducting us? Right now Shad Khalif is missing. Ask the president, where is Shad?” Mwangi posed.
On Sunday, June 23, the Head of State disclosed that he was ready to have a conversation with the young generation that is protesting against the new proposed taxes.
His remarks came even as Kenyans took to social media to question the recent abductions of young people by security agencies.
On Sunday, June 23 evening, Shadrack Kiprono alias Shad Khalif who has been vocal protesting against the proposed new taxes in the controversial Finance Bill 2024 was abducted outside a shopping Centre in Nairobi’s South B area by men suspected to be plain-clothed detectives.
Before his arrest, Khalif conducted interviews explaining his involvement in the anti-finance bill protests.
His abduction came hours after that of Dr. Austin Omondi, alias Ja Prado. The medic was kidnapped while conducting a blood donation drive to aid injured protestors along Forest Road in Nairobi.
He was, however, released on Sunday evening following outrage from Kenyans and other medics.
