Police promise security for June 25 memorial protests
Nairobi Regional Police Commander George Seda has assured the public that the police will provide full security during the upcoming June 25, 2025, memorial protests.
The planned memorial protests will commemorate the Gen Z who lost their lives during the 2024 anti-government protests.
Speaking during a press briefing on Wednesday evening, Seda confirmed that the police had received the official notification letter regarding the upcoming June 25 protest and assured that they would provide sufficient security to ensure the safety of everyone, both participants and non‑participants.
“For the June 25, we have got what we call the enhanced plan for that; the letter which was delivered to central, we have the copy,” Seda said.
“We will provide enough security to ensure every person who is going to participate and even those who are not participating to be safe.”
Seda on protestors
He urged the public to restrict themselves to peaceful demonstrations and warned against planning protests that might interfere with people not participating.
“What I would like to urge the public is to let us restrict ourselves to peaceful demonstrations; let us not have demonstrations which are going to interfere with the other people who may not be part of the demonstrators,” he stated.
The police commander noted that it would be a working day and a convergence of protesters might appear uncivilised if it turned violent and would undermine the purpose of the demonstration.
He also warned against provoking the police during demos, noting that the protesters had even gone as far as roughing up officers who were armed and emphasised that the police were not there to wage war on the public but were solely present to provide safety.
“It will be a working day. We shall be having other people operating shops, hotels and even others at the bus stations. We are looking more uncivilised when we start converging, and then as we continue, it turns violent, and it loses the logic of conducting it,” he added.
“Some protestors go to rough up officers who are armed provocatively, we are not there to be at war with the public; we are just there to provide safety.”
June 25
Police assurance comes days after Wiper Party leader Kalonzo Musyoka called upon citizens to observe the day through various commemorative activities.
“June 25th will be a public holiday – a solemn day to honour our fallen Gen Z heroes. We shall lay flowers along Parliament Road, light candles, and remember them with the dignity they deserve,” Kalonzo stated.
“We urge all Kenyans to honour our children and come with a rose and a candle. Their blood and sacrifice must not go in vain.”
He declared that he would never work with President William Ruto’s regime and warned that no one should be misled by those peddling falsehoods and attempting to use his name to sanitise injustice.
“I want to make it clear: I will never work with this blood-based regime. Let no one be misled by those peddling falsehoods and attempting to use my name to sanitise injustice,” he added.
