| CORD Leaders & relatives of detained MPs being restricted at Pangani Police Station. PHOTO: COURTESY |
The anti-riot officers camped around the station as Opposition leaders began streaming in, to visit the hate speech suspects locked up in the filthy Pangani cells.
Odinga arrived in the company of other CORD leaders among them Kalonzo Musyoka , Bungoma Senator Moses Wetangula , Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero and his Mombasa counterpart Hassan Joho .
Security agents had a rough time controlling a crowd of leaders and journalists who converged to get a glimpse of what was happening inside the station.
The Opposition leaders were denied access to the station after which they claimed that the detainees had only been given one meal since being placed in the cells.
On Wednesday, wives of some of the locked up leaders complained after being denied access to their husbands for several hours. After finally managing to see their husbands, they decried the deplorable condition under which the suspect had been subjected to.
Asked by Journalists how the honourable members were doing, Suna East Member of Parliament Junet Mohamed 's wife said : “They (CORD MPs) are bare-foot and held in one cell while those of Jubilee are in a separate one. Police have refused to allow us to give them food, clothes and other needs and we don’t understand why they are doing this.”
On her part, Machakos Senator Johnsone Muthama's wife Jemimah said she had brought her millionaire husband a change of well-done clothes but was turned away with them.
“He is a clean man but he is still in yesterday’s clothes. The smell in there is choking. They are in the same suits they were in when they were arrested. They don’t have shoes with them and they look sickly,” she narrated.
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