Members of the creative sector and Nairobians are showing their displeasure at last week’s shooting of DJ Evolve by MP Babu Owino at B Club in Nairobi.
The shooting has had widespread ripple effects, including calls for both justice to be served to Owino and for firearms to be banned in Kenyan night clubs to further ensure that everyone has a safe night out (and that politicians of privilege are sent a message that musicians aren’t just there to be subjects of their violence).
Gregg Tendwa, an activist within Kenya’s creative sector, himself a DJ (notably as a member of Bengatronics) and a friend of the EA Scene is spearheading one such campaign to ban guns from Nairobi bars and clubs. Tendwa has started a petition on Change.org; with a goal of 5,000 signatures, of which the petition has reached well over 4000, however, this is a vital petition that the EA Scene firmly supports- and if possible we want the petition to get well over its goal.