Exiled lawyer Miguna Miguna on Monday, August 17, shared his views on the best way to tackle the current conundrum facing the Senate.
Following a record ninth sitting at the Senate without a consensus regarding the way forward on the contentious revenue sharing formula, the firebrand lawyer urged the legislators and Kenyans alike to rise up and demand for change.
"When the Burkinabe wanted real change they burnt down their Parliament on October 30, 2014, stopped all despotic games and chased away their dictator of 30 years, Blair Compaore," he stated.
He also advised Narok Senator Ledama ole Kina to join his movement in demanding for change through a vocal protest.
Senator Ledama had earlier on issued a statement of his own regarding the recent arrest of three members of the Senate.
"I told you guys the Moi era is back! We have sunk so low! Now embrace yourself for a rough ride. The reformers have turned errand boy of dictators," his statement read.
In response Miguna informed him that this was what he had been pointing out all along and that it was time for a 'March to Freedom'.
Senate Speaker Kenneth Lusaka had called for a special session to deliberate on the way forward on the revenue sharing formula impasse that had paralysed most of the counties across the country.
Senator Cleophas Malala (Kakamega), Christopher Langat (Bomet) and Steve Lelegwe (Samburu), were arrested before they could make it to the Senate and whisked away to various police stations across the country.
Speaking during the Senate session, Makueni Senator Mutula Kilonzo Jnr revealed that Senator Malala had been charged with selling government issued hand sanitisers, going on to state that those were just trumped-up charges.
The special session got heated to point where Elgeyo Marakwet Senator Kipchumba Murkomen almost lost his voice as he agitated for the release of his counterparts.
It was this and other ills in society that Miguna Miguna came out to castigate and urged Kenyans to push for change.
