Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has yet again dared the Azimio to return to the streets and asked them to stop intimidating Inspector General of Police Japhet Koome.
Speaking on Saturday in Nyandarua during a tree-planting event, the DP asked Koome to continue executing his mandate and assured him of government's support.
"If the Azimio team wants to go back to the street, they should, the IG is doing his work professionally," he said.
Gachagua said had the Azimio team not gone to the streets, there would not have been any issue between the demonstrators and the police.
"Let the Azimio people leave their supporters at home to avoid the problem with the police," he added.
This is not the first time the DP is daring the Opposition to go back to the streets.
On April 6, Gachagua vowed to protect the property of Kenyans from destruction in the face of chaotic street protests.
He said the government will not tolerance of form of plans that would result in the destruction of property.
"They (Azimio) are threatening to go back to the streets, no problem. The streets are there, they aren't going anywhere. We are here and we will go nowhere," Gachagua said.
"But I want to say as I said, no one will destroy any property belonging to the people of Kenya. It will not happen. Whatever they want to do we are fine, no problem lakini mali ya raia ipewe heshima (but private property must be respected."
Azimio leader Raila Odinga on Thursday said the twin weekly mass action will return even as they engage the Kenya Kwanza government via a parliamentary bipartisan process.
He said he will officially announce the return of the protests soon after the Holy month of Ramadan.
The Azimio team is pushing for the lowering of the cost of living, opening and forensic analysis of IEBC servers, bilateral reconstitution of IEBC and the respect of the country's multiparty democracy.
