NDARAGWA MP Jeremiah Kioni is accusing a section of leaders in the G7 Alliance of conspiring with parliamentary aspirants to have incumbent MPs heckled during its prayer rallies. He was reacting to reports in a section of the press claiming that he was heckled by his electorate when Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and Eldoret North MP William Ruto led other MPs for a political rally in his constituency.
While relaunching Leshau-Karagoine water project in the constituency yesterday, Kioni said he has been supporting Uhuru and is determined to continue doing so. He said the MPs must respect residents and leaders of the places they are holding the rallies. "This is what our African culture and the diplomatic world demands. We shall not build this alliance through intimidation and belittling other leaders," he said.
Kioni said the leaders, mainly from United Republican Party, are popularising their party through bad-mouthing his United Democratic Forum. "These are individuals that I have advised all through, especially the time when the motion to either form a local tribunal or refer the post-election violence cases to the ICC came to the floor of the House. I told them picking the ICC option would be selling the country to former colonialists but they would not listen. Now look at how they have been messed up," said Kioni.
He said the MPs ''are abusing the intelligence of the electorate in various places will be shocked to find how much support the incumbent MPs in their areas''. During the rally, Dujis MP Adan Duale and his Kaloleni counterpart Kambi Kazungu told the gathering that some leaders ''are introducing other networks which were not for Uhuru" and will not be condoned. They went ahead to mention Safaricom and Airtel hence the crowd apparently failed to decipher the meaning of the utterances.
But a section of leaders interpreted the statement to mean it referred to a section of leaders who had urged G7 members to be prepared with another suitable candidate in case Uhuru is barred from contesting for presidency. Rumours doing rounds in the area attributed the statement to MPs Kioni included and the leaders were allegedly prepared to finish him politically during the rally.
When he rose to speak, Kioni seemed not to be in a hurry and his perceived detractors kept on pestering him to keep time and finish his speech quickly. "No. You don't come here every day and I must mention all issues from my constituents that I feel need to be looked into, especially by leaders we have today because they are forming the next government," he said. Uhuru nodded for him to carry on, hence the pestering from MPs dwindled as the crowd cheered him up.
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