correspondent catherine armando is in nairobi i asked her why opposition leader. a chose the twelfth of december to be sworn in as president by an assembly of his followers. now the top to december is kenya's independence day a very significant day for millions of kenyans so his announcement comes both as a shock to people who support the main ruling party saying that it's probably even just a joke and he's just looking for mileage but then you have his supporters who are saying that they believe that is true and they believe that he is the legitimate president if it is not a joke and this happens next week he class itself president what would that mean. that means trying times ahead that small protests to be seen on the streets of nairobi and opposition strongholds so we're likely to see more deaths unfortunately today another child was killed by police during the protests that took place that the opposition area in jacaranda so we will see a lot of this probably in coming days but we're also going to see people starting to speak to the issue of secession which i