Azimio La Umoja One Kenya coalition party says it has already collected 1.2 million signatures to complement the other efforts of civil disobedience, tax boycotts and defiance against the Finance Act 2023.
Speaking during the launch of the digital signature collection platform on Tuesday, the party leader, Raila Odinga, indicated that this will continue to pressure the government to repeal the Act and take active steps to reduce living expenses.
“Kenya Kwanza has questioned where we will take the signatures and the legality of the exercise. We don’t expect them to understand, they don’t understand the people’s power as of now, but with time they will do,” he said.
“We appeal to more people to come out and append their signatures to this historic undertaking.”
Further, he has called upon Kenyans to select the manual or digital platform they feel most comfortable using.
”The process we are engaging in is about the deliberate policy decisions by the Kenya Kwanza regime to make life unbearable to a great majority of Kenyans despite the consistent appeal by Kenyans for the regime to take actions to lessen their burden,” he added.
He also stated that the group intended to file a lawsuit and initiate prosecution against specific cops who took part in illegal and unconstitutional actions against protesters while holding demonstrations.
According to Odinga, the use of civil disobedience and protests cannot be wrong unless the law itself is incorrect, and Kenyans must never be led to believe that they are in the wrong when they demonstrate.
“We therefore ask Kenyans to film, photograph and record all those police officers who shoot at or in any other way hurt protesters in the course of our activities,” he said.
“Such officers are acting in disregard of the constitution, and we must make them pay for their illegal activities.”
Raila on Friday at Kamukunji Grounds in Nairobi announced the commencement of the signature collection.
