We Will Arrest You Just Like Your Father- Raila Threatened

National Super Alliance (NASA) leader Raila Odinga was on Sunday warned that he would be arrested should he interfere with the set date for the fresh presidential election.

Speaking at Maji Mazuri grounds in Nairobi’s Kasarani area, Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria threatened that Odinga could be put under house arrest just like the government did to his late father, former Vice President Jaramogi Oginga Odinga in 1982. 

"If Raila tries to stop us from voting on 17th October, we will place him under house arrest just the way we did to Jaramogi," Moses Kuria proclaimed.

Still on Sunday, Deputy President William Ruto claimed that Opposition leader was plotting a coup and violence in order to ascend to power.

Ruto warned Kenyans that Odinga was planning bloodshed but the repeat polls would still take place.

“When they say there will be no election, it can only mean that there will be a coup or chaos because the only way to stop the repeat poll is to cause chaos. Who are you to stop the election? People must vote next month to elect their president.

"I want to make it categorical that there will be an election next month,” stated Ruto.

The DP, without mentioning names, said some individuals had plotted coups and election-related violence in the past.

“This country has history and we know people who have plotted for a coup in the past. But we want to tell them that nobody is above the law, even the President,” he stated.

Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Kenya's first vice-president, is credited for the phrase "Not Yet Uhuru" which is the title of his autobiography written in the 1980s during his time under house arrest for 14 months. 

"Uhuru" means freedom in Swahili and he was referencing the fact that even after independence from British colonialism, the brutal oppression of opposition in political affairs in Kenya, meant that the country had still not attained real freedom

During the Moi regime, Raila Odinga was once placed under house arrest for seven months after evidence seemed to implicate him for collaborating with the plotters of the 1982 failed coup attempt against President Daniel arap Moi.

He was later charged with treason and detained without trial for six years.

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