In what they termed as an unlawful interference, the party accused Mr Owino, Azimio-One Kenya Coalition and the National Police Service of blocking access and restraining UDA’s MP candidate for the region, Mr Mureithi, from campaigning at the grounds. Yesterday, UDA Secretary-General Veronica Maina wrote to Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission chairman Wafula Chebukati seeking to have the electoral body disqualify Babu Owino from defending his seat in the August 9 General election How much blood do you want to shed? Please go home, you've shed enough blood,” Dr Ruto charged. You can't continue to shed blood of the people of Kenya in a futile attempt to be what you can never be. You have attacked this young man Francis Mureithi leading him to shed blood. “To Raila Odinga, please start planning to go home because victory is for us in just 50 days. The DP was accompanied to the rally by his running mate Rigathi Gachagua, Amani National Congress (ANC) leader Musalia Mudavadi, his Ford Kenya counterpart Moses Wetang’ula, National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi, Machakos Governor Alfred Mutua and a host of Kenya Kwanza leaders and aspirants.ĭr Ruto was more brutal with Mr Odinga, his main opponent in the August 9 elections, asking him to start preparing to go home and cautioning him against “shedding blood of innocent Kenyans.” Let our competitors meet us at the ballot and stop this blackmail.” He went on: “No youth will ever throw stones again. “Kenya sio ya familia mbili ama tatu (Kenya does not belong to two or three families), tutaokoa wananchi mpende msipende (We shall save the people whether you like it or not),” Dr Ruto charged. “We want to tell them that no amount of bullets, stones and threats will stop this nation from changing. In a bare-knuckle targeting Mr Odinga and President Uhuru Kenyatta, Dr Ruto said that in just 50 days, the country would be liberated from the bondage of ‘two or three families’.
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Upon accessing the field at around half past 3pm, a visibly angry DP trained his guns at Mr Odinga, accusing him of hiding behind the State to orchestrate violence by using innocent youths. Police who used teargas to disperse rowdy youths arrested some following the chaotic scenes at the venue that also led to the stoning of a bus which had ferried the DP’s supporters to the ground. Police then allowed access to the venue, even though supporters from opposing camps streamed into the ground leading to chaos which saw Dr Ruto’s United Democratic Alliance (UDA) candidate for Embakasi East Constituency, Francis Mureithi, hit with a rock on the head. Mr Owino booked the venue vide a letter dated June 15, but was forced to call it off at the last minute to avert chaos, giving way to Dr Ruto’s Kenya Kwanza brigade. As early as 9am, supporters of Raila Odinga-led Azimio la Umoja and those of DP’s Kenya Kwanza Alliance had started streaming into the ground to attend the planned parallel rallies.Įmbakasi East MP Babu Owino had insisted that he booked the same venue for a rally, leading to the police move to earlier cordon off the field to avert possible chaos.