Showdown looms between police and Azimio La Umoja coalition leaders over a town hall meeting set to be held in Murang'a town on Thursday.
The coalition’s party leader Raila Odinga insisted that he will preside over the meeting, despite the police directive that barred the gathering.
On Wednesday, Raila invited residents to turn up in large numbers and freely engage on the issues affecting them.
"As part of our ongoing engagement with the public on the critical challenges facing our country including the high cost of basic commodities, search for electoral justice, reform and reconstitution of the IEBC and protection of our hard-won multi-party democracy, the leadership of Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition will hold a town hall meeting in Muranga Town tomorrow from 10 am," he said.
“Like all engagements that the party has held in recent months, the Murang’a meeting will be peaceful and strictly within the law. I personally look forward to this engagement."
Raila also said that similar engagements will be held in other parts of the country over the next couple of weeks.
Earlier in the day, county police commander David Mathiu said he had cancelled the meeting as he was notified too late and that police officers would be deployed elsewhere.
He argued that the notice was to be served four days earlier for proper planning
Former Murang’a Governor Mwangi wa Iria presented the notice to the police on Tuesday morning.
