{"id":402969,"date":"2018-02-20T14:55:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T14:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=402969"},"modified":"2018-02-20T14:55:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T14:55:37","slug":"kenya-allows-opposition-figures-fly-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/02\/kenya-allows-opposition-figures-fly-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya allows opposition figures to fly to Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"
Kenyan officials have allowed two opposition supporters to fly to Zimbabwe after detaining them at an airport overnight.<\/p>\n
Senator James Orengo and financier Jimi Wanjigi planned to attend opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s burial.<\/p>\n
But officials said the pair failed to present a court order overturning an existing suspension of their passports.<\/p>\n
Both men support Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, who named himself “the people’s president” last month.<\/p>\n
There is growing concern that the government is ignoring civil liberties in response to the mock inauguration of Mr Odinga.<\/p>\n
Unlike Mr Orengo and Mr Wanjigi, Mr Odinga was allowed to fly to Zimbabwe, without any difficulties, for the burial of Mr Tsvangirai, his long-time friend.<\/p>\n
The Zimbabwean politician died of colon cancer on 14 February, and thousands of people are expected to attend his interment in his home village of Buhera.<\/p>\n