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Section 4, The Public Order Act, 1965

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Every person who, with a view to compel any other person to abstain from doing or to do any act which such otherperson has a legal right to do or abstain from doing, wrongfully and without legal authority— i. uses violence to or intimidates such other person or his wife or children, or injures his property, or ii. persistently follows such other person about from place to place, or iii. hides any tools, clothes, or other property owned or used by such other person, or deprives him of or hinders him in the use thereof, or iv. watches or besets the house or other place where such other person resides or works or carries on business or happens to be or the approach to such house or place, or v. follows such other person with two or more other persons in a disorderly manner in or through any street or road, shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding eighty leones or imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months or both. Peaceful picketing and prevention of intimidation. Cap. 222

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