Kenyas Top security organ Prepares To Deal With CORDs Planned Civilian Coup

 

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KENYA: Kenyas Top security organ now believes Cord is planning a civilian coup and that its demands for the replacement of the IEBC Commissioners are a smoke screen.

Accrding to the Star, The council has met twice in the last two weeks to discuss how to deal with the protests by Cord over the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission which it believes has a strongly pro-Jubilee bias.

The NSC is the top security organ in Kenya. It is chaired by the President and consists of the Deputy President, ministers for Defence and Interior, the Attorney-General, the Chief of Kenya Defence Forces, the Director-General of the National Intelligence Services and the Inspector-General of the National Police Service.

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It exercises supervisory control over national security organs and it assesses and appraiseses the objectives, commitments and risks to the Republic in respect of actual and potential national security capabilities.

The primary object of the national security organs and security system is to promote and guarantee national security in a none partisan manner

Two weeks ago, it concluded that Cord wanted a revolution to force President Uhuru Kenyatta out of office or to make him share power with Cord.

Members inside the council argued that the opposition was then planning to have elections postponed for at least two years.

Then on Sunday the NIS boss Maj Gen Philip Kameru briefed the NSC that Cord was mobilizing extensively for Monday. The NSC resolved to deploy heavily to prevent the protestors from accessing the CBDs of major towns.

Cord has dismissed the claims as "figments of fertile imaginations".

"Those claims must be treated with the contempt they deserve. They amount to whistling and shooting in the dark. If they are looking for targets, Cord will not give them any," said Cord co-principal Moses Wetang'ula yesterday.

In a press conference yesterday, Government spokesman Eric Kiraithe said government has detailed intelligence reports that some politicians were out to take power through “extra-constitutional means”. He warned them, "We have taken note and appropriate action will be taken."

But Wetang'ula dismissed the claim as laughable.

"The government has the capacity to find out who the foreigners are, how is soliciting the cash and in what form or currency, This juvenile allegations must be substantiated," added Wetang'ula.

Kiraithe justified the use of live bullets on protesters, arguing that using violence for political purposes is terrorism. On Monday the police shot dead three protestors in Kisumu and Kisii while ten more were hospitalised with bullet wounds

Via: The Star.