Members of Nasa's parliamentary wing, the National Resistance Movement,
during the press conference in Nairobi on November 3, 2017. PHOTO | NMG
Opposition Nasa’s National Resistance Movement (NRM) wing has
called on its supporters to shun services and products from telecom
Safaricom
, milk processor Brookside and fast goods manufacturer Bidco Kenya.
The
political coalition says the boycott is an act of economic sabotage
against corporates they claim are affiliated to the Jubilee
administration.
“This is the beginning of the
liberation of our country against corporates that have gone to bed with
the Jubilee regime...The companies have denied Kenyans their right to
participate in democratic elections,” Suna East MP Junet Mohamed told
journalists at Okoa Kenya's Nairobi office Friday.
Ugunja
MP Opiyo Wandayi also asked Nasa supporters to start migrating to other
firms with immediate effect, arguing that there were many alternative
products and services.
“The economy is already on its
knees under the jubilee administration, therefore there is no price that
is too high to pay for democracy,” he said.
On the eve
of the October 26 repeat presidential polls, Nasa leader Raila Odinga
said the coalition would be making public the names of corporations
whose products his supporters should boycott.
Mr Odinga
said that the names will be released on a weekly basis in a national
campaign of defiance against an “illegitimate governmental authority and
non-cooperation with all its organs”.
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