Exiled lawyer Miguna Miguna on Friday, September 20, 2019, attacked Jeff Koinange and Citizen TV over a discussion the news anchor had with his JKLive guest, Suba North MP Millie Odhiambo.
Millie, on Wednesday, September 18, had claimed that Deputy President Ruto was using the Kibra by-election to assert himself and his followers in Nairobi, noting that he influenced the win of current Lang’ata MP Nixon Korir.
"Kibra is ODM and ODM is Kibra. When Jubilee and ODM formed a union after the handshake, the yellow (URP - Ruto's former party) was absorbed and forgotten. Orange blended with Red (TNA - President Uhuru Kenyatta's former party) and it became carmine red.
"Kibra by-election is all about the yellow trying to revive itself and assert its position in Nairobi. It is a good thing that Mariga is in the race," Odhiambo opined.
Kibra was carved out of the larger Lang’ata Constituency, which for a long time was represented by ODM leader Raila Odinga.
Miguna slammed Koinange for letting the MP make what he termed as xenophobic remarks.
"Citizen TV and Jeff Koinange must stop promoting xenophobic politics in Kenya. This is dead wrong.
"Nairobi is the capital city of Kenya; not the capital city of Kikuyu, Luo, Luhya and Kamba. Mariga is a Luhya, not a Kalenjin," Miguna posted on his social media.
The self-proclaimed National Resistance Movement leader stated that politicians should compete with articulated visions, ideas, values, ideologies, programs, platforms, manifestoes and record.
“It is factually incorrect to claim that no member of Kenya's 45 ethnic groups can be president ‘if none of them is a member of parliament in Nairobi.’
“Moi was a tyrant. But he was a Kalenjin and president of Kenya for 24 years when there was no Kalenjin MP in Nairobi,” the lawyer added.
Xenophobia is the fear or hatred of what one perceives to be foreign and/or strange. This could be in the form of suspicions towards other tribes, races or nationalities based on perceptions of purity of the majority group and fear of losing that apparent purity from the interaction with the 'foreign' group(s).
