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Kidero’s convoy stoned in Dandora, journalists injured


The convoy of Governor Evans Kidero was on Wednesday afternoon pelted with stones in Dandora by an irate crowd.

Governor Kidero was not injured during the fracas, but a vehicle carrying journalists and a police vehicle that had escorted the governor were stoned.

Police officers in the stoned vehicle were forced to disembark and shoot in the air to disperse the crowd.

Three Mediamax journalists, Sarah Ndungu, Patrick Kimanthi and Charles Mathai, together with their driver Edward Mungai, were injured during the incident.

Nation reporters escaped narrowly after police officers dispersed the youths.

Initial reports indicate that the youths had been mobilised to wait for the governor outside the Friends Secondary School in Dandora with the expectation of handouts.

They however turned violent after the governor sped off after making his speech.

Governor Kidero later issued a statement in which he confirmed that the youths turned chaotic after he refused to give them money.

He said he was not aware that journalists who accompanied him were injured and called on the police to investigate the incident.

“This should be condemned, journalists should be protected from hooliganism and they were stoned because I did not give money. Let it be known I will never give handouts,” said Dr Kidero.

He said the youth are Jubilee supporters who are trying to sabotage his re-election campaign.