Senate Majority Leader Kipchumba Murkomen was told off by a popular benga musician Dan Aceda for what the artist termed as hypocrisy.
The Elgeyo Marakwet senator had lamented about how Kiambu Governor James Nyoro's swearing-in ceremony was unconstitutional. He complained that politics trampled over the law.
"A High Court judge cannot preside over swearing-in of DG of Kiambu to be a governor before 10 days are over and before they gazette the date, time and place for conducting the swearing-in ceremony. But you know what? Everything is working like a clock in the new Kenya," he posted on Twitter.
Dan Aceda responded that Murkomen had been party to actions that a section of Kenyans had also termed unconstitutional.
"Msando aliuwawa na kura ikaendelea. Commissioner akajiondoa na kura ikaendelea. Counties kadhaa zikasusia na kura ikaendelea. Hii ni bafu chafu riddim. Wewe ulikuwa kwa hiyo studio. Sasa karibu dance floor (Msando died but the General Election still happened. A commissioner resigned but the election carried on. A few counties abstained but the election went on unaffected. It is a sad song and you were part of it. Now you have to dance to your own tune)," the benga star shot down Murkomen's statement.
"What about making the same noise on the failure to swear in the judges nominated by the Judicial Service Commission? Or the Government Printer is yet to print 41 Bibles," lawyer Nelson Havi posed to the senator.
Jubilee Party lieutenants have been complaining about the same evils they were propagating against their opposition counterparts.
Some of Ruto allies have been lamenting that the police have been used by the state to quell dissenting voices, sometimes using excessive force, what Kandara MP Alice Wahome has termed as the return of a police state.
Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria made a bold declaration on May 16, 2016, when he advocated for the upward review of the National Police Service budget.
The MP had explained that the budget would help the police procure more teargas that would allegedly be used on then Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) supporters who were protesting against the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).
"Well done police! As a Member of the Parliamentary Budget Committee, I can confirm we will be reviewing the budget upwards to cater for emerging issues like the need for more and extra lethal teargas," he wrote on Facebook.
"Now they are saying that the police used live bullets. Did they want you to use dead bullets? Whoever wants change at IEBC bring your petition to bunge we deal with it through the law and constitution. Happy machozi Monday," Kuria opined at the time.
Almost three years since Kuria's statement, his supporters were tear-gassed by police officers on Friday, January 10, 2020, and had to scamper for safety.
The legislators, led by Kandara MP Alice Wahome and her Kiharu counterpart, Ndindi Nyoro, had held a press conference at Kilimani Police Station, protesting the arrest of Kuria over assault allegations.
