Murang'a Senator Irungu Kang'ata has asked the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Keriako Tobiko, to have National Super Alliance (NASA) Chief Economist David Ndii prosecuted over secession remarks.
On Thursday, Mr Kang'ata, who is the Senate Deputy Majority Whip, wrote to the DPP seeking prosecution of Mr Ndii over his remarks advocating for the Country to be divided into two halves.
"The said person has also been active on social and print media, in particular, the Daily Nation newspaper on diverse dates articulating the same agenda. Those sentiments are treasonable hence actionable in criminal law under section 40 (1) (b) of the penal code.
"It is with this regard that I am petitioning your good office to cause the said person to be arrested and taken to court for breach of law," he stated.
Last month, Dr Ndii created a petition to divide the country into two halves noting that for the past 54 years of Kenya's independence, the country has consistently been ruled by two communities yet it is a country with 44 tribes.
He submitted that successive Kenyan governments have perpetuated a culture of impunity through rigged elections that deny Kenyans from other tribes the ability to self-determine and even grow economically.
"In the wake of a rigged 2017 election and the subsequent killings and fact ethnic cleansing taking place in the country, it is time we charted our own course as people who believe in change," he stated.
In the draft petition, he singled out regions such as Nyanza, Western, Turkana and the Coast region as areas which should be separated from Central, Nairobi and Rift Valley.
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On the other hand, Government Spokesman Eric Kiraithe dismissed the petition stating that all aggrieved politicians can "as well go to Somalia or Libya".
"As for entitlement to your ideas are concerned you can even migrate and go to Somalia a country where we have as many states as the competing Leaders," Kiraithe stated.
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