Interior Minister Kiture Kindiki said on Sunday, March 26, that the government plans to amend the law on holding domestic protests.
In a statement to the press, Kindiki said the government is considering amending the Public Order Law, which will affect 10 rules governing pickets and mass gatherings.
The proposed changes, according to the CS, would touch on the following:
1. Notification Procedures.
2. Duties of security agencies to protect the rights of those participating in the assembly, demonstration, picket, or petition.
3. Demarcation of assembly, demonstration, picket, and petition zones.
4. Duty of public agencies and institutions to set aside a zone for persons who wish to present petitions to public authorities.
5. Duty of organizers of assemblies, demonstrations, pickets, and petitions to provide the hours, routes, and other relevant information to assist law enforcement agencies to escort them and provide them with security.
6. Consent requirements from persons whose activities are likely to be affected by assemblers, demonstrators, picketers, and petitioners.
7. Obligations of the organizers of assemblies, demonstrations, pickets, and petitions to ensure that the activities remain peaceful, unarmed, and generally within the law including compliance with the duty not to infringe on the rights of others.
8. Limitations on the number of assemblers, demonstrators, picketers, and petitioners at any particular occasion.
9. Responsibility for clean-up costs.
10. Responsibility for, and payment of, damages to those harmed by activities of assemblers, demonstrators, picketers, or petitioners.
