Embakasi East Member of Parliament(MP) Babu Owino on Sunday sent a message to members of the Kikuyu community over the Kibra by-election.
Speaking to party supporters who had gathered at DC ground, Kibra, the Mp said the community had no reason to support Mariga since the Man behind the former football star’s candidature is the one who meted untold suffering on them during the 2017 General Elections.
“I am telling the Kikuyu community, I am your inlaw. The second thing I am telling you is about the 2007 elections violence, no Luo killed even a single Kikuyu. But we know of one person who was burning women and children at a church.
And I want to tell the Kikuyu community don’t forget how your children were burnt, let Kibra remain for Kibra and let us vote in Bernard Imran,” the MP.
The Embakasi East legislator also took a swipe at Jubilee Party candidate McDonald Mariga over a reported attack that was faulted on the ODM party.
Babu claimed that Mariga and his team had organized the attack against themselves so that they can tarnish the Orange party’s image.
“Yesterday we heard the other team organized themselves and stoned their vehicles… They thereafter proceeded to a police station to report that it was the ODM party supporters that attacked them.
But let them be told that if we attack them they won’t go to a police station but to a mortuary,” said Babu.
Babu was in the company of other ODM MPs who had pitched a tent in Makina ward to campaign for the Orange party candidate Bernard Imran Okoth.
The attack on Mariga’s convoy on Saturday sparked uproar among the Jubilee party leaders who accused their ODM rivals of orchestrating the hooliganism.
ODM leaders including Simba Arati and Junet Mohamed, however, dismissed the allegations and vindicated the ODM party from the skirmishes.
With less than three weeks to the Kibra by-election, various parties have been crisscrossing the Kibra constituency to woo voters.
The Orange party candidate Imran Okoth, brother to the late MP Ken Okoth, is facing stiff competition from ANC’s Eliud Owalo, Jubilee’s Mariga among other 20 candidates cleared by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission(IEBC).
The by-election is set for November 7.