Kenya’s opposition wants three companies boycotted after repeat election
Nairobi — Kenya’s opposition coalition has asked supporters to boycott three big companies it says benefit from ties to the government of President Uhuru Kenyatta, who won last week’s repeat election after an opposition boycott. Wearing hats embroidered with "RESISTANCE", and speaking against a backdrop showing a clenched fist, members of parliament gave their supporters a week’s notice to stop using products from telecoms giant Safaricom, dairy products from Brookside and Bidco cooking oils. "We are calling for a boycott that will be painful, a boycott that will bring these companies to their knees until they stand for electoral justice," said Nakara Lodep, Turkana central lawmaker. Opposition leader Raila Odinga has called for a "national resistance movement" to protest the outcome of the repeat election, which was ordered by the country’s supreme court after it annulled the results of an August poll over procedural irregularities. President Uhuru Kenyatta won a second, five-year ...
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