Former nominated senator Millicent Omanga has joined the bandwagon of those throwing shades at government for the way it harshly responded to the Gen Z protestors last year.
Through her Facebook page, Omanga, who has been a long-time ally of President William Ruto, took a different and contrasting stance to other allies, seemingly claiming that the events of June 25, 2024 that led to the bloodshed of Gen Z youth are the cause of the government's disregard for the wishes of the people.
“We can build a better country by learning from our history and past mistakes—and taking meaningful corrective action.”
Omanga, who also calls herself Mama Miradi, said that Kenya as a nation has a great opportunity to learn from past events in history and to do better moving forward without repeating the same mistakes.
The politician said that the BBC documentary Blood Parliament is a sobering reminder of how young people can react when their voices are suppressed and ignored for too long by the ruling class.
“The BBC documentary dubbed #BloodParliament on the unfortunate events of 25th June 2024 at Parliament of Kenya is a sobering reminder of what can happen when citizens' voices are ignored,” she said.
“Rather than directing anger at journalists for doing their job, we should foster a culture of inclusive and participatory leadership to address critical national issues and prevent such occurrences in the future,” Omanga added.
The documentary which was aired barely three days ago has been hot on the government’s toes to the point where some pro-government MPs are calling for the BBC to be regulated or completely banned from operating in the country.
On the other hand, various Kenyans have been applauding the BBC for uncovering the unfortunate events that seemed to have been forgotten.
Kenyans online also praised journalist Allan Ademba for his narration on the harrowing events who claimed not less than 5 lives of unarmed youths in parliament building.
Ademba has however ruled out any plan to flee the country, saying that he hasn’t committed any crime by giving his first-hand account on what happened on that day.
The fourth year university journalism student said he believes telling the truth of what he saw was the noble things after BBC reached out to him.
“I don’t know if I did anything wrong, I just used my voice to narrate the sad story, actually to say what I saw,” Ademba confidently said.
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