Police Lob Tear Gas Canisters To Lang’ata Primary School Pupils, Provoking The Wrath Of The Public And Celebrities In Equal Measure

The Lang’ata Primary School land grabbing saga has raged on from last week and it is crystal clear that it is not going to end any time soon until the matter is settled.

Today so pupils from the school take to the streets to demonstrate the grabbing of their land by allegedly top government officials.

However, what they met as they demonstrated will always linger in their memories in years to come.

Police lobbed tear gas canisters at the pupils demonstrating peacefully, provoking the fury of the already raged society.

This has led to countrywide condemnation of the act which many term as barbaric and uncalled for. Kenyans have taken to the social media platform to castigate what they term as lack of respect to the pupils.

We sample some of the reactions from celebrities and other Kenyans who are raged by the happenings along Lang’ata road:

Comedian Cleophas Awinja (Kazungu Matano): How does a man, a parent…throw teargas at children??? Policemen are parents too, ait? My heart bleeds for the Kenyan child.

Kenny Kaburu of Standard Group: When i was growing up, Moi used to give us Milk during break time. This government has offered to give tear gas to children during break time! ‪#‎OccupyPlayGround‬

Wahome Thuku: When a Police Service, nay, Police Force uses teargas on school children the age of my seven-year old daughter Wambui just because they are holding a peaceful demonstration to protest the grabbing of their school land by a notorious Mashamba grabber, then we have a governance problem. We have police officers with an IQ half the size of those children’s. Behold the New order has gone, the Old Kanu is back.