Security has been beefed up at the home of the late Kabuchai MP James Lusweti until his burial is conducted on December 19, 2020.
This is after the family got word that a section of leaders that are opposed to Bungoma Senator Moses Wetangula leadership of Ford Kenya party, had hired goons to disrupt the MP's send-off.
Speaking at Lusweti's family home in Sanandiki village, Bungoma County Commissioner Samuel Kimiti warned that anyone planning to cause chaos would face the full force of the law.
The commissioner confirmed that there would be a heavy security presence in the area until the MP was buried.
Lusweti passed on at the Nairobi Hospital on Friday morning, December 4 after a long illness.
The warning came a week after chaos erupted during the burial of Bungoma Maendeleo ya Wanawake Chairperson, Jane Wachiye.
Bungoma Deputy Governor Ngome Kibanani was kicked out of the podium by a section of youth after he faulted Wetangula for allegedly misguiding Bungoma residents.
"During the 2017 campaigns, Wetangula publicly declared that the senate speaker was corrupt and not fit to hold public office but now they are transversing the county together with the hope of unseating the current governor," Ngome stated.
On his part, Musikoma ward MCA George Makari, who is a Wetangula ally, accused the county government of being involved in corrupt dealings.
Soon after Makari claims, youth allied to the governor roughed up the MCA and forcefully ejected him from the podium.
Following the chaos, friends and the church ministers hurriedly went on to bury the remains of the deceased.
Police officers had to intervene to quell the situation.
