Nominated Senator Isaac Mwaura on Wednesday, October 16, escalated a tiff he had with US President Donald Trump's security team in a September 2019, conference.
Mwaura delivered a formal protest letter over his profiling by the secret service, which is charged with protecting the US president, to the US ambassador to Kenya Kyle McCarter.
According to the legislator, the incident occurred at the UN General assembly conference in New York.
The Jubilee senator presented his complaints to the Ambassador's residence as a follow-up to an earlier meeting with US congressmen and women he had to address the serious matter.
After the meeting, Mwaura stated, "We must create awareness by standing up to discrimination, no matter who commits this and from which country.
"We must stand in solidarity to resolve what divides us, for discrimination against anyone is discrimination to each and every one of us. We are one humanity musked by appearances and presentations. When we learn to work together, we can achieve a lot," he stated adding that he would continue on his quest.
Earlier in September, the legislator took to social media to narrate profiling he had been subjected to by the US secret service while attending the UN General assembly in New York.
"I get into the building and check-in at the security. I do the usual stuff of emptying my pockets, then I go through the machine and they do a body search. Then I'm told to step aside and I am kept waiting for over 30 minutes. The Secret Service agents ask for my ID and by this time, they have picked my entry card.
"I give them my national ID and NHIF card as further proof of my identity. They tell me that they are looking for someone who fits my description and then they go like, 'the photo is of the same person but the names don’t match'," he narrated.
The senator added that he offered to leave when he noticed he was facing discrimination, but the agents refused to let him go, adding that they verified his identity later when he met Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja.
Mwaura recalled that he experienced the same treatment in yet another incident when he went to meet President Uhuru Kenyatta and other colleagues at Hotel Latte during the same event in New York.
"The Secret Service takes my card again while others start taking photos of me secretly with their phones. My colleagues have to explain again that I am a senator from Kenya when one of them asks ‘who is this guy?’ As if that is not enough, a Secret Service agent follows us up into the lift while looking at me suspiciously," the senator explains.
Further, the senator stated that he tried to access his hotel and gave his UN accreditation a third time and he was accorded the same treatment.
