Machakos county governor Dr Alfred Mutua has said that leaders who use the funeral audience to politic should be banned from speaking during the occasions.
Posting on his Facebook account on Tuesday, the Governor said that it is disheartening to go to a funeral where the relatives of the bereaved are subjected to improper and most of the time callous political talk by some leaders.
"Some people wait for someone to die so that they can use the audience that has come to pay homage to the deceased and the funeral as a platform for insulting others and to engage in empty politics.
Any leader who goes to funerals and uses the occasion to attack others and make wild political statements should be banned from speaking in politics," he said.
The vocal politician went ahead to term the act as not only selfish, greedy, wrong but also sinful and noted that some politicians don't even know the person who died nor have any personal connection with the bereaved family.
"All they see is an audience that has to listen to their vitriol," he argued.
Mutua, who has expressed his interest to vie for presidency come 2022, ruthlessly bashed the leaders and told them that people don't attend funerals to witness name-calling, campaigns or microphone grabbing.
"Shame on you heartless leaders who use funerals as podiums to play empty politics. May God find creative ways of punishing you severely," Mutua said.