Police have arrested Starehe Member of Parliament Charles Njagua alias Jaguar over alleged inciting remarks against foreigners doing business in Nairobi.
Jaguar was arrested by plain-clothed police officers outside Parliament buildings on Wednesday afternoon.
This comes a day after he threatened to forcefully remove foreign traders from their shops in Nairobi.
“If you assess our markets, Ugandans and Tanzanians have taken over our businesses… Now we are saying enough is enough,” saidJaguar when he visited traders along Kirinyaga Road.
The musician turned politician gave Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i 24 hours to deport all foreign nationals doing business in his constituency, failure to which he would mobilize youth to flush them out by force.
“If a 24-hour ultimatum is not enough for them to be deported, we will remove them and we’ll beat them up and we will not fear anyone,” said Jaguar.
His remarks forced the government to issue a statement assuring foreign investors of their security and that of their properties.
“We wish to state that this is not the position of the Government of the Republic of Kenya, and we denounce the comments carried in the video in the strongest terms possible,” government spokesperson Cyrus Oguna said.
“Such comments are unfortunate and have no place in today’s globalized environment. Kenyans are peace loving people who have over the years coexisted with others of different nationalities.”
Kenyans online condemned Jaguar, terming his remarks as “xenophobic.”
Jaguar go back to singing…
Jaguar go back to singing looks like you lost focus enact laws that will solve if indeed there is a problem..with foreign investors.
Jaguar with his idiocy is…
Jaguar with his idiocy is targeting the wrong group of people. Does he know how many Kenyans are doing business outside of Kenya? Why has he been quite when Chinese have been abusing Kenyans physically and verbally? Wahindis doing the same too. Someone needs to educate kigeugeu man.
@Mugikuyu, he has relatives…
@Mugikuyu, he has relatives doing business in Maryland. How would he feel if her relatives are kicked out? The fool needs to go to Kamiti. He killed a woman and walked free.
Wanamuziki wabaki kuwa…
Wanamuziki wabaki kuwa wanamuziki. Kuwa mwanamuziki haikufanyi kuwa mtaalamu wa kila kitu.
Kwa nini wananchi wa Kenya hawaelewi ya kwamba, kura yako ni muhimu sana. Ni lazima umpigie mtu ambaye ana upeo (vision) wa kuona mbali.
This guy must be rotten from…
This guy must be rotten from very beginning. So Ugandans and Tanzanians are threat to him, I would credit him if he flushes out Indians and Arabs or Chinese, Oh wait, when he is infested with terrible disease ( Including AIDS) he will either fly to India for treatment, Also I’m sure he would rather go to Dubai ( Arabs land) for the so called ‘holiday ” ( vacation). Or perhaps China for business. I argue him to relocate to South Africa maybe he will do better with black South Africans.
Wonderful Kenyan government…
Wonderful Kenyan government. Such remarks are destructive to any society and economy. This kind of politicians are stupid and selfish. They fail to understand that Kenyans are in almost every country on earth doing jobs that other people can do. The remittance they send back to kenya is more money thank what kenya earns from agriculture and tourism combined. Imagine the same was to happen to all Kenyans in the diaspora?
Kenya would suffer greatly.
Hence, such people need to be taught a good lesson.
A thug…hood..low down…
A thug…hood..low down….always one. Hata aende wapi…ni yule yule!
Chinese should go, Africa is…
Chinese should go, Africa is for africans. IJS. we can’t get away with what the Chinese do in Africa and you would get deported ASAP. however, since they want their money to rob and still it Kenyans are pretty much the ones getting the short end of the stick.
BTW..si E. Africa unity…
BTW..si E. Africa unity means free movement/trade? So where have waganda and TZ’s errored?
@sukari, UG and TZ,…
@sukari, UG and TZ, Especially TZ has been blocking Kenyan goods from Tanzania as well as refusing Kenyan tour operators to cross over to Tanzania. Uganda on the other hand has the migingo issue which the Kenyan government is unable to solve and this is something that can be solved in one day, why is Uhuru unwilling to stand up to Museveni the dictator? Magufuli simply does not like Kenyans it seems but needs to understand the Kenyan economy is the power in E Africa. Rwanda is the only country that plays fair towards Kenya. however, I don’t say Ugandans and Tanzanians cannot live in Kenya peacefully, they should but Chinese need to go to wherever Uhuru is from coz that’s his people.
Siasa siku hizi imekuwa…
Siasa siku hizi imekuwa sarakasi. Kwa nini?
1. Rais wa Liberia sasa Ndugu George Wea. Yeye alikuwa mchezaji wa mpira wa kandanda Liberia.
2. Rais wa Ukraine ni Ndugu Volodymyr Zelensky. Yeye alifanya michezo ya kuigiza.
3. Ndugu Charles Njagua mjumbe wa Starehe alikuwa mwimbaji kabla hawajachaguliwa kuwa mjumbe wa bunge.
Ni maoni yangu kuwa yeyote anayetaka kuwachaguliwa, ni lazima apite mtihani wa katiba yetu mpya kwa lugha ya Kiswahili au Kiingereza.
Kwa wote mliozaliwa baada ya…
Kwa wote mliozaliwa baada ya Kenya kupata uhuru, ni vizuri mtazame “youtube” ifuatayo na kujiuliza kwa nini tuko kwenye hali ya ajabu ya ufisadi sasa!
https://youtu.be/SJYK78fwQ4c
Navile ulikuwa unaimba juu…
Navile ulikuwa unaimba juu ya “kuvuka boda”. Labish. Rudi kuimba usilete ujinga yako hii area code.
Another MP displaying their…
Another MP displaying their stupidity. The starehe seat should have been won to the well deserving man Boniface Mwangi who publicly calls out the corruption that Kenya faces. Jaguar was released on a 20kshs bond for murdering 2 people in traffic early this year which the media never covered…The Law never applies to the so called waheahimiwas in Kenya