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Booker Ngesa Omole | |
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| Born | 25 September 1982 Siaya, Kenya |
| Political party | Communist Party of Kenya |
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)