VIDEO: Police rough up CORD supporters as they march to IEBC offices

VIDEO: Police rough up CORD supporters as they march to IEBC offices

Police on Monday lobbed teargas to disperse Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) supporters during their third anti-IEBC march in Nairobi.

Police used teargas and water cannon to disperse the CORD leaders and supporters who had assembled just 50 metres from Anniversary  Towers which houses IEBC.

Even before CORD leader Raila Odinga and his co-principals Moses Wetangula and Kalonzo Musyoka addressed their supporters, police lobbed teargas at the protesters throwing the meeting into disarray and causing the leaders and their supporters to flee.

They then pursued some of the supporters, beating them up leaving most of them with injuries.

Prior to converging along University Way, CORD legislators and their supporters had made rounds in the CBD bringing business to a standstill.

The legislators, led by Ruaraka MP TJ Kajwang, Kisumu Senator Anyang Nyong’o, Ugunja MP Opiyo Wandayi and Mbita MP Millie Odhiambo, led the protesters in a procession from Uhuru Park, through Haile Selassie Avenue and Moi Avenue to Kenyatta Avenue roundabout where they were joined by CORD leaders Raila Odinga, Moses Wetangula and Kalonzo Musyoka, Siaya Senator James Orengo, his Machakos counterpart Johnson Muthama and KANU Secretary General Nick Salat.

The team then proceeded to University Way through Moi Avenue where they assembled for a brief  meeting.

Police sources say they could not allow CORD supporters to get to Anniversary Towers following intelligence that they were planning to use stones to destroy property and hurt people.

CORD’s two previous attempts to storm IEBC offices were also thwarted by police.

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