Homabay Town MP Peter Kaluma, has calledon arrest of activist Rose Njeri, following her innovation to help Kenyans to reject the 2025 Finance Bill. Photo: Peter Kaluma X.
Homabay Town legislator Peter Kaluma has called on the government to arrest and persecute activist Rose Njeri, following her move to create a website calling for rejection of the 2025 proposed Finance Bill.
In a post on his official X account on Monday, June 2, Kaluma wrote that Kenya is a democratic country that is governed by well structured systems and institutions, as well as rules, and not what he termed as idle activism.
“Who is Rose Njeri? Stable and democratic states are run by established institutions, not idle activists! We are rule of law nation. Arrest and have her persecuted,” Kaluma wrote.
Njeri, a software developer and activist, spent her Madaraka Day weekend in police custody, after her arrest on Friday, May 30, for developing an online tool known as Civic Email, designed to facilitate public objections to the proposed Finance Bill 2025.
Njeri who is currently detained at the Pangani police station, has been denied a police bail according to activists Boniface Mwangi and Hussein Khalid who visited her on Sunday, June 1, at the station demanding for her release.
The two activists led others in protests on Sunday outside the station, after they were denied access to see Njeri. The activists were joined by Njeri’s mother, who was also denied access to see her daughter.
The distress mother also disclosed that her daughter had been denied access to a lawyer, and had not taken her medicines since her arrest, as she has an underlying medical condition. She demanded answers behind the block by officers in the station to see her daughter.
However, she said that her sister had seen Njeri, but as the mother, she wanted to see and know the condition of her daughter. Kaluma’s remarks were earlier echoed by Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei, who hit out to activists for breaking the law to attract donor funding, to further their activism career.
“There is a bad habit/manners creeping in Kenya that you break the law deliberately to attract sympathy, instant celebrity status and attract donor funding for a career activism. There is no one above the law you break the law you face the wrath of the law nothing less nothing more. This is not a banana republic but a country of rule of law,” Cherargei wrote.
However, Busia senator Okiya Omtatah accessed Njeri on Sunday, Omtatah said that there was nothing to celebrate on Madaraka Day, as Kenyans have no freedom yet. He said that Njeri is unlawfully detained, for implementing her constitutional right in her own way through innovation.
