NASA Leaders Cut Short Rally in Kabarnet After Crowd Turns Hostile

National Super Alliance(NASA) leaders were forced to cut short their rally in Kabarnet, Baringo County after a section of the crowd heckled and jeered them.

According to residents who were in attendance, the crowd was angered by some of the sentiments made by NASA presidential candidate Raila Odinga, though it is not yet clear what he said.

Another group claimed they disrupted the rally after they received reports that Deputy President William Ruto had been heckled during President Uhuru Kenyatta's tour of Homa Bay County.

"We welcomed Raila to our home but we heard that his people have heckled Ruto. That is not right," said a member of the crowd.

Others claimed that there were hate leaflets against Ruto being spread in the area causing panic among the residents.

DP Ruto accompanied the Head of State to the lakeside region but was reportedly booed as he introduced the President amid chants of, "we don't want Ruto."

Kenyatta went ahead with his address and the crowd cheered him on as he made promises of improving infrastructure in the region.

He also assured that he had the interests of all Kenyans at heart and pleaded for peaceful elections.

Last week, Odinga was in Kiambu County where he was welcomed by a jubilant crowd but the heckling of Ruto in Nyanza seems to have irked his Baringo supporters.