Thousands of South Koreans took to the streets of the capital on Saturday calling for increasingly unpopular president Park Geun-hye to step down over allegations that she let an old friend, the daughter of a religious cult leader, interfere in important state affairs. The evening protest came after Park ordered 10 of her senior secretaries to resign over a scandal that is likely to deepen the president’s lame duck status ahead of next year’s election.
Holding candles and signs reading “Who’s the real president?” and “Park Geun-hye, step down”, the protesters marched through downtown Seoul after holding a candlelight vigil near City Hall. Police estimated that about 12,000 people turned out for the biggest anti-government demonstration in Seoul in months.
Park has been facing calls to reshuffle her office after she admitted on Tuesday that she had provided longtime friend Choi Soon-sil drafts of her speeches for editing. Her televised apology sparked huge criticism about her mismanagement of national information. She had already become unpopular for what some saw as a heavy-handed leadership style and lack of transparency.
There has also been media speculation that Choi, who holds no government job, meddled in government decisions on personnel and policy, and exploited her ties with the president to misappropriate funds from nonprofit organisations.
The saga, triggered by weeks of media reports, has sent Park’s approval ratings to record lows and the minority opposition Justice party has called for her to resign.
The onus is for that GEMA community to kick Uhuru out of office, bringing the culture of ‘it’s our time to eat’, or forever we keep our peace.
If the next President comes in new doesn’t measure up, we kick him/her out, this will set the country on the path of recovery and prosperity.
that is a country we were at the same level during the early years of independence, the same country that came to study and learn about urban planning from Nairobi, now we are light years apart.
Weh, baba Nasri, Ni Kiswahili yangu unaita upuss? Najua Ni vile Adebayor anapatanga E for effort kwa subject ya Kiswahili… Tafutia kijana shule huko TZ…