This archive report was first published on 18 October 2019.
On October 18, 2019, Senator Isaac Mwaura wrote a protest letter to the United States authorities following the alleged mistreatment by Secret Service agents in New York last month.
Senator Mwaura delivered a formal complaint against the Secret Service agents in charge of presidential protection to the US Ambassador to Kenya Kyle McCarter on Thursday.
He claimed to have been profiled by the officers in three separate incidents 'for being an albino' while attending the 74th session of the UN General Assembly in NY.
Senator Mwaura wrote, 'I am rushing to attend a Kenyan side event on peace and I am told to step aside and kept waiting for over 30 minutes.' The secret service agents asked for his ID after taking his entry card, and he gave them his national ID and NHIF cards as proof of identity.
He alleged that the agents were embarrassed and refused to let him go, before eventually apologizing and escorting him to the GA hall.
Senator Mwaura also claimed that he was questioned again the following day, and that a Secret Service agent followed him suspiciously to the lift.
He later received an apology from the US ambassador to Kenya Kyle McCarter, but expressed his disappointment at the treatment he received.
