Outspoken Kenyan MP Warns China: We Can Do to Your People What You Did to Ours

Kenyan MP Babu Owino issued a stark warning to the Chinese government this week during a press conference in Nairobi where he condemned the reported recent maltreatment and discrimination against Kenyans and other Africans in Guangzhou.

“To the Chinese government,” he said, “let them all know that we also have the territorial sovereignty of dealing with their people in Kenya the same way they are dealing with our people in China.

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