Kalembe Ndile: How I Saved Kalonzo's Life

Featuring on an episode of KTN TV's Wako Wapi with Mary Atwoli on June 29, 2019, former Kibwezi Member of Parliament Kalembe Ndile recalled a time he saved Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka's life. 

He recalled that drama had ensued during the 2006 Mwingi Cultural Festival, to a point where he was kicked out. 

Kalonzo and former Mwingi South MP David Musila were later summoned by the police for the ejection of Kalembe Ndile, who was then an assistant minister. Kalembe was escorted by five police officers as he narrates to Atwoli.

"I can't forget the running I had to do in Mwingi. Many Kenyans do not know why I ran, but it was life-saving," Kalembe revealed.

In the midst of the fracas, one of the police officers who had accompanied the former TIP TIP Party leader had vowed to protect him at all costs.

"A police officer who is a good friend to me was panting behind me, when I asked him why he told me he was infuriated and he could not allow anyone to harm me," Kalembe narrated.

"I told him that we were fewer and if he shot someone, there would be chaos. It's then that he told me his next bullet would be headed straight for Kalonzo," he added.

Kalembe added that upon inquiry, the policeman had told him he wanted to shoot them former VP because he believed the Wiper leader was behind the chaos.

The former legislator recounted warning the police officer against the action, explaining to him that since they were dominated in numbers, they would be brutally beaten up or even killed.

"I told him that shooting Kalonzo would only get us killed. So I talked him out of it,' Kalembe intimated.

Noting that there was no sign that the chaos would end soon, with seats flying all over, Kalembe narrated that he had to run to Musila, then allied to Kalonzo, to convince the Wiper leader to call off his followers.

Kalembe remembered that when he got close to Kalonzo, he had advised him that if the chaos was not contained, it would have lead to the loss of lives.

"When I talked to Kalonzo, I told him that there would be deaths and so there was a need to call off the hooligans, Kalonzo asked me to rescue myself," Kalembe recalled.

He concluded that the festival's fracas was something he would like to forget, emphasizing that if he had not intervened, Kalonzo could have died that day.

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