The arrest of former Chief Justice David Maraga and other demonstrators in Nairobi yesterday is a worrying violation of their rights as enshrined in the Constitution. Former CJ Maraga and the others were protesting against the planned excision of a 75-acre parcel of the Nairobi National Park to create a parking space for motor vehicles.
As long as they were peaceful, the security should never have interfered with the demonstrators, and should, in fact, offer them protection against hooligans, who often take advantage of such protests to cause needless mayhem.
