ODM secretary-general Edwin Sifuna clapped back at Kericho Senator Aaron Cheruiyot over his opinion that the ODM brigade was wrong to celebrate the mistreatment of Jubilee MPs by the police.
In a post on his social media pages on Sunday, January 12, Sifuna dismissed Cheruiyot's concerns that ODM as a party was supposed to be condemning police brutality instead of revelling in it.
He told Cheruiyot and his colleagues to feel the pinch of what the ODM arty felt in the hands of the police before they could talk about the way forward for the country.
"Bro, we were waiting for you guys to have a taste of the tyranny you used to preach. Experience is the best teacher. Once we are on the same page let's have a chat on having a country that protects all of us regardless of who is in power, where the law is Supreme. When ready mtuambie (tell us)," he wrote.
Cheruiyot had on Saturday, January 11, raised concerns about the Rarieda MP Otiende Omollo's exhortation that the Jubilee brigade feels the taste of teargas like ODM did in the run-up to the 2017 polls.
"We cheered then... You are cheering them on now... I hope at some point we grow up and stand up for what's right irrespective of political shade," he had stated.
The basis of the case was when Jubilee MPs were teargassed by police officers on January 10, on their way to demand the release of Gatundu South legislator Moses Kuria.
Kuria had been incarcerated over the alleged assault of Kiambu activist, Joyce Wanja after an interview with Royal Media Services' Inooro TV.
The teargassing of the Mt Kenya leaders has elicited reactions from a section of politicians, among them Kiharu MP Ndindi Nyoro who was subjected to the treatment on January 10.
“People have said on social media that Kuria and I were celebrating when the opposition was being teargassed. At that time we were sycophants of our candidate then and the president of this country. But I have now learned what the Germans said: If you see they have started with Kamau don’t celebrate because next, they will come for Otieno. When they are done with a teacher they will come for a hustler. As a country we have to be in solidarity to fight for it,” he stated.
