Kenyans are demanding the arrest and prosecution of Daadab Member of Parliament Farah Maalim after a video surfaced showing him making inflammatory remarks against young Kenyan protesters.
The verified translation of the video reveals Maalim censuring Kenyan Generation Z protesters for attempting to march to State House during the anti-Finance Bill 2024 protests.
“This was an attempted coup, a clear attempted coup. Children of wealthy business owners, wealthy parents, and kids raised on ill-gotten wealth, 80% from one tribe, were dropped off in downtown and told to riot and take over State House and Parliament buildings. God forbid if I was president, I would have slaughtered them, 5,000 of them daily. Serious, there is no two ways about it.”
Despite clear evidence showing that the video was not tampered with, Maalim has claimed it has been doctored and misrepresented. During an interview with KTN News on Tuesday, he suggested that his political adversaries were behind the video’s manipulation.
“It’s all editing, cutting and pasting, taking a word from here, another one from there, and putting it together. There is a lot of nonsense there. It’s Somalis basically who would do that because I weighed in on their politics. It’s not the true picture,” Maalim stated.
Maalim explained that his statement was a protest against attacks on critical national facilities, warning that similar invasions in other nations have led to chaos.
“The one thing I said is…when you say that you’re taking over State House, you’re occupying State House and you’re occupying Parliament, two constitutional institutions that are a bedrock of the stability of the country and the democracy that we practice.
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