Troubles have been following Mwingi Central MP Gideon Mutemi Mulyungi over the recent past at a rate that one could easily ask the problem the legislator has. Is it curse? Yes, indeed it is!
Mulyungi is alleged to have beaten up his father in a family disagreement back in 2004.
According to the Nation, In anger and disbelief, the father removed his clothes and walked out of his homestead towards Mwingi town with his mouth bleeding.
“As a parent, I stripped naked to condemn him. I wanted to remind all my children that I am their father no matter their physical strength or wealth,” Mulyungi Kithonga, 84 year-old father said.
The father revealed more that the MP has not been in good terms with the rest of the family since then.
The incident, which happened in 2004, when Dr Mulyungi had been elected the Chairman of Architectural Association of Kenya, appeared to have been the start of the many disputes.
“Since the assault, Mutemi (the MP) has never bothered to apologise to me or to initiate any form of reconciliation with me. I have since forgiven him but that incident is fresh in my memory and I still keep my four knocked out teeth,” the old man said.
Dr Mulyungi vehemently denied the accusations.
He says the claims are not new and were fabricated by his political enemies during the campaigns for the 2017 election, to discredit his candidacy, but he won.
But his father says had he spoken during the campaigns, the MP would not have won the election.
He said that instead of his son using his position to bring honour and blessings, the family has had to endure shame and anguish.
Dr Mulyungi has been sued by his former wife, TV journalist Doreen Majala, who narrated before Ngong magistrate Alex Ithuku how she was assaulted by the MP in February last year, before he fled from their matrimonial home.
The MP was arrested but was released after spending two nights in custody.
Last year, the Mwingi Central MP was charged in a Kitui court with three counts of hate speech and offensive conduct in public, after allegedly using offensive and inciting remarks against President Uhuru Kenyatta.
The charges stated that on October 23, 2017 at Kalundu open-air market in Kitui township, while addressing a National Super Alliance gathering, he used abusive words against President Kenyatta.
The case is still ongoing and the MP is out on a Sh200,000 bond.