Police officers in Kisumu have been accused of beating journalists who were covering National Super Alliance (NASA's) anti-IEBC demonstrations.
Five journalists were reportedly beaten and asked not to film or take photographs as police officers whipped the demonstrators.
According to KTN Journalist Rashid Ronald, the police harassed the Star journalist Faith Matete near Kisumu Boys'.
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Anti-riot police claimed that journalists had exposed the work of the police to ridicule.
NASA supporters returned to the streets as the opposition stepped up its push for reforms at the electoral commission ahead of repeat presidential election.
The youth chanting anti-IEBC slogans lit bonfires and barricaded the roads using rocks and burning tires.
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Business owners and traders in Kisumu kept off their premises following the fresh wave of demonstrations.
Kisumu Woman Rep Rosa Buyu and MPs James Nyikal (Seme), Onyango Koyoo (Muhoroni), Aduma Owuor (Nyakach) and several MCAs led the demos in the lakeside county.
IEBC offices in the county remained closed with only security officers guarding the compound.
Anti-riot police officers escorted the demonstrators in the streets even as the supporters demanded to be tear-gassed.
"We will provoke them later to hurl tear gas at us...they can't just escort us peacefully like this," one of the protestors stated.
This comes even after one person was shot and badly injured in Nairobi during the protests with three others run over.
