Nairobi, July 8, 2020
To:
Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta
President of the Republic of Kenya
Harambee House
Re: Citizens’ Demands
WE members of the Social Justice Movement in Kenya;
PURSUANT to article 1 of the Constitution of Kenya 2020, which recognizes us as Sovereigns and the source of all State authority,
HAVING wished to present to you our petition on the 30th anniversary of Saba Saba yesterday;
HAVING been violently disrupted by policemen sent by your administration to violate our constitutionally protected rights and freedoms including the right to peaceful assembly, expression and protest;
FURTHER HAVING addressed various offices within your administration and received no meaningful attention;
UNDERSTANDING that you have violated the Constitution on numerous occasion including failing to protect the lives of all Kenyans especially those of us from poor and neglected informal settlements;
RECOGNIZING that you have taken everything from us including our dreams for a better future through institutionalized corruption;
HAVING little to live for under your administration;
READY AND WILLING to die for Justice, our Constitution and our Communities;
DO NOW wish to address you and demand as follows;
1. THAT you should understand that you are our leader and not ruler
2. THAT we are sovereign citizens and not your subjects
3. THAT implementation of the Constitution is not a choice but a duty for you and all of us
4. THAT you have no right to mutilate our Constitution for narrow and selfish political interest to the detriment of the rest of the 50 million Kenyans
5. THAT we demand that stop the BBI process immediately; implement the Constitution in full; no excuses! Tekeleza Katiba sasa!
6. THAT you must direct the BBI budget to services that Kenyans really need especially provision of water, food, sanitation and healthcare
7. THAT you must respect and Implement the Bill of Rights without any qualification or exception – Kenyans rights are not a privilege for you to regulate; they are an entitlement and we are ready to die for them
8. THAT you must stop killing us – terminate and prosecute all the Officers Commanding Police Stations that have contracted extrajudicial killings in Nairobi and across the country; terminate and prosecute all the Police officers who have participated, abetted or aided extrajudicial killings; terminate and prosecute all the Police officers who have concealed and/or compromised investigations on extrajudicial killings
9. THAT you must stop playing the game of musical chairs with criminal police officers; you must stop transferring them from one police station to another; we demand that they every rogue police officer must be terminated, prosecuted and those found guilty jailed; all of them
10. THAT you must stop criminalizing youth and poverty; stop it immediately
11. THAT you must stop weaponizing COVID 19 against Kenyans; stop police harassment and extortion of Kenyans; we demand a proper record of all resource that have been raised to help Kenyans deal with the pandemic; and we demand prosecution of all those who have stolen resources meant for communities and Kenyans from the local level to the national government
We are tired of being victims and being terrorized by criminal state violence! If you do not respect our existence, expect our revolt!
We demand and expect to hear from you within the next 7 days, failure to which we shall be back in the streets… and this time we shall not get out of the streets until something yields!
For and on behalf of Social Justice Movement in Kenya; (see downloadable version here: SJCWG Citizens Demands)
Wilfred Olal
Convener, Social Justice Centres Working Group
0722746164
Faith Kasina
Convener, Social Justice Centres Working Group
0723133329
CC:
All Sovereign Citizens of Kenya
National Assembly of Kenya through the Speaker
The Senate of the Republic of Kenya through the Speaker
President of the Supreme Court and The Chief Justice of the Republic of Kenya
Kenya National Commission on Human Rights