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Kenyan police arrest third MP over Odinga’s ‘swearing in’

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Kenyan police on Saturday detained a third opposition legislator, who attended a symbolic “swearing-in” of opposition leader, Raila Odinga that was a direct challenge to President Uhuru Kenyatta, who won re-election in October.

NAIROBI — Kenyan police on Saturday detained a third opposition legislator, who attended a symbolic “swearing-in” of opposition leader, Raila Odinga that was a direct challenge to President Uhuru Kenyatta, who won re-election in October.

The government has made several arrests and suspended three television channels that had planned to stream last Tuesday’s event.

“George Aladwa was arrested at his house and is currently being held at the headquarters of the Directorate of Criminal Investigation,” his lawyer, Nelson Havi said. “He was interrogated in connection with the oath taken by Kenyan main opposition leader, Raila Odinga as the people’s president,” he said. A police spokesman said he was not aware of his detention.

The arrest follows that of opposition politician, Miguna Miguna, who was detained in a dawn raid on his Nairobi home on Friday and that of another opposition leader a day earlier.

Miguna was released on $500 bail.

Miguna stood beside Odinga at Tuesday’s rally and declared himself the “general” of Odinga’s National Resistance Movement, which authorities have designated a “criminal group” because of its stated intent to establish a parallel government.

Kenya’s ban on three private television stations defied a court order to lift the move.

The media crackdown has been criticised by the United Nations and the United States.

The arrests and broadcast bans have shocked many Kenyans used to a freewheeling media and irreverent political culture that has taken root since 2002. — Reuters

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