Soy Member of Parliament Caleb Kositany and his Kapseret counterpart Oscar Sudi now say that they are ready to bear the brunt after being summoned by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) over the stoning of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga's chopper.
Speaking in a press briefing on Sunday, April 3, the duo noted that they were ready to present themselves to Nakuru DCI offices for grilling.
They further denied organising the attack on Raila Odinga arguing that their singling out was politically motivated by their opponents.
"We are ready to bear the brunt. We are there for justice. We are always preaching peace. We are heading to Nakuru to go and listen to this nonsense. It is pure nonsense. Whatever they want to do, we are ready for it.
"As politicians, we should desist from hiring goons to heckle others even at funerals. It is not African. They have questioned the youths and those who ferried youth are known but they have targeted those associated to Deputy President William Ruto," stated Kositany.
He added that prior to the incident, he had interacted with the former Prime Minister who arrived at the venue while the burial ceremony of Mzee Kibor was underway.
"I think what is happening in this country is very sad that there is a super-investigator (a politician ) who can investigate an incident in 10 minutes and have all the evidence, have the names because he implicated me 10 minutes after the event when I had hardly known that anything had taken place.
"Raila arrived at around 5:30 pm when we were burying Mzee. He came and addressed the media and we went into the house, and we greeted him. I sat between Junet and Babu Owino," he added.
Sudi, on the other hand, while accusing DCI of selectively going after politicians allied to Ruto, noted that he would present himself at Nakuru DCI headquarters on Sunday at 1:00 p.m.
He listed incidents of attacks targeted at Deputy President William Ruto's caravan, claiming that no politician had been summoned or arrested.
He also alleged that he was not at the burial when the stoning incident occurred but was, nonetheless, linked to the mayhem.
"I would tell the DCI who has summoned us, I will be available at 1 p.m. I am ready to be taken in. You should know that this country belongs to 50 million Kenyans. I was not there, first of all. You should have asked the governor (Jackson Mandago) because he was there... I want to tell all Kenyans because all this is political. They seek to provoke us. I spoke at the funeral to say that I arrived late, at 11:20 a.m. and I left early. There were so many youth, some were drunk," stated Sudi.
The two politicians had been summoned alongside David Kiplagat, the Uasin Gishu County Assembly Speaker, over the chaos. They had been directed to appear at the Nakuru DCI offices before Sunday, April 3, 9:00 a.m. for interrogation. So far, 17 suspects have been arrested over the matter.
Governor Mandago, on the other hand, distanced himself from the incident arguing that he had even provided the motorcade that ferried Raila to the venue and that he would not mobilise the youth to stone his own car.
