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Kenyans Roast CJ Dr Willy Mutunga Over IEBC Tweet

Kenyans Roast CJ Dr Willy Mutunga Over IEBC Tweet
Kenyans Roast CJ Dr Willy Mutunga Over IEBC TweetChief Justice Dr Willy Mutunga’s comments on the manner the police handled demonstrations led by the Opposition outsideย IEBC offices,ย were not received well by a section of Kenyans who resorted to bashing him.

Mutunga posted a tweet apparently calling on police to stop using excessive force and teargas onย peaceful demonstrators andย even invokedย American writer and Nobel Prize laureate William Cuthbert Faulkner.

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Dr Willy M Mutunga

โœ”โ€Ž@WMutunga

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1: ” The past is never dead. The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” William Faulkner.

Dr Willy M Mutunga

โœ”โ€Ž@WMutunga

2: Faulkner’s quote is my very painful reflection that teargassing of peaceful demonstrations has not been our past since our independence!

However, his tweets caused anger on social media withย a section of users castigatingย Dr Mutunga for his supposed support of violent demonstrations and activism.

Among prominent personsย who expressed their anger at the CJย were National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi and Senior Director of Public Communication at State House, Munyori Buku.

Mr Buku tweeted:

@WMutunga it’s shocking that you concur with those who storm offices to eject others. How nice it would be to throw you out in that method

Speaker Muturi on the other hand told the Star on Tuesday that the Chief Justice should stop street civil society activism.

โ€œWhat happened when CORD were breaking gates to access the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission is a clear indication of their planned violence and someone was tweeting to tell us the demonstrations were peaceful,โ€ the Speaker said.

Amid the contention sparked by his sentiments,ย Mutunga responded highlightingย that he was surprised at how his quote had been perceived through ethnic and partisan points of view.

1: I am surprised at responses to my quote of Faulkner. The responses as usual reflect usual ethnic and partisan divisions

Mutunga furtherย expressed thatย Kenya was doomed if tribalism and partisanship guided all interactions.

2: We will never develop as a country as long as all discourses are interpreted through ethnic and partisan lines!

Here are some of the reactions:

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