After A Fiery Online War, Uhuru Kenyatta Speaks Up On The Tear Gassing Of Lang’ata Pupils

Traffic in Lang’ata came to a standstill yesterday as students, activists teachers and politicians took to the streets to protest the alleged grabbing of Lang’ata playground by private investors .

The protest took a dreadful turn when the children joined their teachers and other protestors to bring down the wall of the grabbed land. Things got even uglier when some of the policemen faced violence from the protestors and had to fire teargas canisters at the protestors, most of them children. What resulted was nothing short of a pandemonium with the young children wailing and running some of them rather dangerously following exposure to the gas.

This act by the police shifted the attention of the masses from the grabbed land to the tear gassed children as images of their tiny wailing faces surfaced online. And this issue has sparked an online debate with many condemning the police acts while others saying that children should not be in protests in the first place .Especially if its Boniface Mwangi who was leading the protest as protests led by him result to casualties.

The president has spoken on this issue saying that the saga should not have escalated to such a violent protest. Action would be taken against the Ministry of Lands and the National Land Commission officials for not nipping the Lang’ata Road Primary School land issue in the bud.

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The president also said that the policemen who flung the teargas canisters would be brought to book, even the headmaster was not spared either and this was what Uhuru had to say about him
“The headmaster should also answer some questions. How do you allow your students to go and demolish walls, what if the walls fell on the children? What language would we be speaking today?”