Gender CAS, Rachel Shebesh, on Saturday, September 27, cleared the air on a viral video where she and former mungiki leader Maina Njenga addressed a group of youth that had visited his home in her presence.
Speaking from Garissa University where Team Embrace had organised an event, the former Nairobi woman representative urged those who were being petty about the video to stop.
"I was in Laikipia in my residence(sic), and many youths came to see me. The other people who are in that room who are not shown in the video are seven MCA's from Laikipia, some women from Nairobi who I had travelled with and my mother who is a reverend of the ACK church," she spoke.
Shebesh added that she did nothing in secrecy as she was aware that a video was being captured.
"I knew that video was being taken and that's why I was speaking, I did not do anything in hiding," she stated.
In the viral video making rounds on social media, Njenga warned leaders from the Rift Valley who were causing divisions in President Uhuru Kenyatta's backyard.
"We will follow them wherever they go(team embrace), and ensure no one touches our women, we ensure they speak until they are done with what they have to say.
"The issue of threatening people all over the place, there is no day people will leave the Rift Valley and come to divide Central when I am still in this position," Njenga affirmed.
He further questioned why some leaders were attacking the president rather than wait for his term to end.
These sentiments raised concern in some quarters, with some leaders wondering whether it signalled the re-emergence of the outlawed gang that Njenga once led.
