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{{Infobox politician|name=Booker Ngesa Omole|image_size=200|birth_date=25 September 1982|birth_place=Siaya, [[Kenya]]|political_party=[[Communist Party of Kenya]]|image=Booker Omole.png}} | {{Infobox politician|name=Booker Ngesa Omole|image_size=200|birth_date=25 September 1982|birth_place=Siaya, [[Kenya]]|political_party=[[Communist Party of Kenya]]|image=Booker Omole.png}} | ||
'''Booker Ngesa Omole''' (born 25 September 1982) is the National Vice Chairperson of the [[Communist Party of Kenya]]. He has called for [[neocolonial]] president [[William Ruto]] to resign.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|author=Princess Harmony|newspaper=Workers World|title=Drop charges against Kenyan communist leader Booker Ngesa Omole!|date=2024-09-10|url=https://www.workers.org/2024/09/80643/|retrieved=2024-10-10}}</ref> | '''Booker Ngesa Omole''' (born 25 September 1982) is the National Vice Chairperson of the [[Communist Party of Kenya]] (CPM-K). He has called for [[neocolonial]] president [[William Ruto]] to resign.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|author=Princess Harmony|newspaper=Workers World|title=Drop charges against Kenyan communist leader Booker Ngesa Omole!|date=2024-09-10|url=https://www.workers.org/2024/09/80643/|retrieved=2024-10-10}}</ref> | ||
== Legal repression == | == Legal repression == | ||
[[Police]] arrested Omole at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on 7 September 2024 while he was on a flight to [[Beijing]]. The government seized his passport and released him after several hours after charging him with "incitement to violence."<ref name=":0" /> | [[Police]] arrested Omole at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on 7 September 2024 while he was on a flight to [[Beijing]]. The government seized his passport and released him after several hours after charging him with "incitement to violence."<ref name=":0" /> | ||
In 2025, Omole faced an assassination attempt.<ref name=":1">{{Web citation|author=Nicholas Mwangi|newspaper=Peoples Dispatch|title=Kenyan communist leader Booker Ngesa Omole was abducted, tortured, and remains illegally detained, says CPM-K|date=2026-02-25|url=https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/25/kenyan-communist-leader-booker-ngesa-omole-was-abducted-tortured-and-remains-illegally-detained-says-cpm-k/}}</ref> | |||
On February 23, 2026, according to statements issued by CPM-K, Omole was abducted by officers of the Kenya Police Service in Isiolo and transported overnight before being held at Mlolongo Police Station. According to CPM-K, Omole was brutalized, sustaining injuries including a broken tooth and a finger cut with a pen knife, as well as being dragged between locations overnight, denied food and water, and later found in what the party statement described as a traumatic state.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">[https://x.com/bookerbiro/status/2026389137385767389 "BOOKER NGESA OMOLE KIDNAPPED BY STATE FORCES PUBLIC STATEMENT AND CALL FOR SOLIDARITY 24 February 2026 The Central Committee of the Communist Party Marxist Kenya addresses the people of Kenya and all progressive forces with urgency, anger, and unwavering clarity."] @BookerBiro, 2026-02-25, Twitter/X. ([https://xcancel.com/bookerbiro/status/2026389137385767389 XCancel])</ref> Commenting on the location of his detainment, Mlolongo Police Station, it was described in the statement as "a station widely feared by the masses and long associated with extra judicial killings and systematic terror against the poor and politically conscious."<ref name=":2" /> The statement demanded Omole have access to medical care and legal council and called for an end to torture and demanded his release and for accountability of the officers responsible, and called on workers, peasants, youth, women, trade unions, student movements, human rights organisations, and all anti imperialist and democratic forces to mobilize.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":1" /> | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
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Revision as of 15:54, 26 February 2026
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Booker Ngesa Omole (born 25 September 1982) is the National Vice Chairperson of the Communist Party of Kenya (CPM-K). He has called for neocolonial president William Ruto to resign.[1]
Legal repression
Police arrested Omole at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on 7 September 2024 while he was on a flight to Beijing. The government seized his passport and released him after several hours after charging him with "incitement to violence."[1]
In 2025, Omole faced an assassination attempt.[2]
On February 23, 2026, according to statements issued by CPM-K, Omole was abducted by officers of the Kenya Police Service in Isiolo and transported overnight before being held at Mlolongo Police Station. According to CPM-K, Omole was brutalized, sustaining injuries including a broken tooth and a finger cut with a pen knife, as well as being dragged between locations overnight, denied food and water, and later found in what the party statement described as a traumatic state.[2][3] Commenting on the location of his detainment, Mlolongo Police Station, it was described in the statement as "a station widely feared by the masses and long associated with extra judicial killings and systematic terror against the poor and politically conscious."[3] The statement demanded Omole have access to medical care and legal council and called for an end to torture and demanded his release and for accountability of the officers responsible, and called on workers, peasants, youth, women, trade unions, student movements, human rights organisations, and all anti imperialist and democratic forces to mobilize.[3][2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Princess Harmony (2024-09-10). "Drop charges against Kenyan communist leader Booker Ngesa Omole!" Workers World. Retrieved 2024-10-10.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Nicholas Mwangi (2026-02-25). "Kenyan communist leader Booker Ngesa Omole was abducted, tortured, and remains illegally detained, says CPM-K" Peoples Dispatch.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "BOOKER NGESA OMOLE KIDNAPPED BY STATE FORCES PUBLIC STATEMENT AND CALL FOR SOLIDARITY 24 February 2026 The Central Committee of the Communist Party Marxist Kenya addresses the people of Kenya and all progressive forces with urgency, anger, and unwavering clarity." @BookerBiro, 2026-02-25, Twitter/X. (XCancel)