- Title: KENYA: POLITICAL REFORM RALLY HELD IN UHURU PARK
- Date: 8th February 1998
- Summary: NAIROBI, KENYA (FEBRUARY 7, 1998) (RTV) 1. LV CROWDS GATHERED IN UHURU PARK 0.05 2. SLV CROWDS WITH PLACARDS 0.10 3. SCU PLACARD READING "MOI STOP FEEDING KENYANS TO CROCODILES" (ENGLISH) 0.16 4. MV OFFICIALS SEATED 0.18 5. SCU TWO MEN WATCHING DEMONSTRATION 0.21 6. SLV CROWDS CHEERING 0.24 6. SCU SABA SABA ASILI PARTY
- Embargoed: 23rd February 1998 12:00
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- Location: NAIROBI, KENYA
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- Country: Kenya
- Reuters ID: LVA49OJBLLGSY2UUEQ2NW9VNP7RX
- Story Text: Around 2,000 people have joined a rally in Uhuru park, Nairobi calling for political reforms.
The rally conveners on Saturday (February 7) told a cross-section of politicians and professionals in the crowd in Uhuru park they were there to address the "most pressing matters in Kenya today." The agenda ranged from the ongoing ethnic clashes in Kenya, the constitutional review, the state of Kenya's infrastructure and fare increases in public transport.
Convener of the National Convention Executive council (NCEC) Professor Kivutha Kibwana told the crowd "the purpose of this meeting is to mourn because our brothers have been killed".
Another speaker Ngonya Wa Gakonya told the rally, "I an now tired of all this, all those who want to remove Moi, I am human, he is human...give me an AK-47'S".
The rally responded noisily and waved banners, one reading "Moi stop feeding Kenyans to crocodiles".
Saba Saba Asili Party Chairman Kenneth Matiba was greeted at the rally with loud cheering and clapping.
The meeting was marked by moments of anger with all thwe speakers condemning the violence in the Rift valley province that has claimed more than 100 lives in less than a month.
Nakuru, the centre of an area of the Rift Valley province where thousands have fled their homes in a wave of violence which followed parliamentary elections on December 29, was placed under a curfew last week by President Daniel Moi.
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