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Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna has criticized Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi after he defended Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu’s remarks following the deportation of Kenyan activists.
In a statement on Tuesday, May 20, Senator Sifuna said it was outrageous for Mudavadi to side with Tanzania.
“Our Minister for Foreign Affairs taking Tanzania’s side on the deportation of Kenyans is wild. Who put these people in power?” the ODM Senator posed.
Mudavadi in an interview with Citizen TV on Tuesday appeared to Defend President Suluhu utterances regarding interferences of Kenyan activists in Tanzania’s internal affairs.
The Prime CS said Kenyans have sometimes gone overboard in their level of etiquette and insults.
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“I will not protest that because I think there is some truth. Let us face a few facts. The level of etiquette and insults that we see in Kenya, even though we have the freedom of speech, sometimes goes overboard. To the extent she is saying that, people have sometimes gone to extremes in their utterances in Kenya, it is a fact,”
“What we need to talk about is, can we get to the bottom of the treatment there? I am a Kenyan too, and the fact of the matter is that our approach and our utterances, because we are free in speech, have lacked integrity,” Mudavadi stated.
On Sunday, May 18, PLP leader Martha Karua and her colleagues, Gloria Kimani and Lynn Ngugi, were denied entry into Tanzania before being deported to Kenya.
The Tanzanian authorities on Monday again blocked former Chief Justice Willy Mutunga, alongside activists Hussein Khalid of Haki Africa and Hanifa Adan, from accessing the country.
The six had travelled to Tanzania for the hearing of opposition leader Tundu Lissu’s case.
Speaking on Monday, President Suluhu warned foreign activists over meddling in Tanzania’s internal affairs.
"We have started seeing activists from our region invading and getting involved in our internal issues. If they have been controlled in their country, let them not come to mess ours," she said.
The Tanzanian President accused the foreign activists of attempting to destabilize the country and urged authorities to stop such attempts.
"We should not allow them; they have already destabilized their country. The only country that has not been destabilized, where people are peaceful, is here (Tanzania),” she added.
