Author: Abdishakur Mohammed

On the morning of Sunday, July 12, 2026, residents of Milimani, Kisumu, expected little more than another ordinary day of worship. Congregants streamed into church, while several political leaders arrived to attend the service. Few could have imagined that, before the morning was over, the area would become the scene of political violence. The incident unfolded against a backdrop of rising political tension. The LindaMwananchi movement had become an increasingly vocal critic of the government, and the church service drew several prominent opposition figures, among them Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna, whose appearance attracted particular attention as one of his first…