Residents of Uyombo in Kilifi want intervention from IPOA

Residents of Uyombo in Kilifi County want the independent policing oversight authority to intervene on a matter where they claim they were brutally manhandled by police officers. the residents who are opposed to the construction of a nuclear plant in the area had picked up an altercation with labourers who were clearing bushes at Uyombo girls’ secondary school in preparation for the construction of the facility, when riot police intervened, allegedly leaving twenty-three people seriously injured with most of them nursing broken arms and legs two weeks ago.