Kiambu county commissioner Wilson Wanyanga has put on notice politicians perpetuating violence in their political rallies.
The commissioner says that he will not tolerate politicians who disrupt peace during their rallies.
Wanyanga wants politicians to ensure that their rallies are peaceful.
He warned that politicians who perpetuate violence in their meetings risk arrest and prosecution.
“We are telling politicians to make sure that their rallies and peaceful failure to which we will arrest and prosecute them,” he told journalists on Saturday during a briefing at his Kiambu office.
The commissioner added that law enforcers will not tolerate acts that would disrupt peace.
He also said that police will be working with peace monitors deployed by the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) to monitor hate mongers.
The new Kiambu county commissioner was speaking in relation to an incident where Thika MP Alice Ng’ang’a supporters clashed with supporters of Patrick Wainaina who is eyeing the Thika seat on Friday last week.
The supporters clashed during a funds drive in aid of jua kali artisans who lost their property in an inferno at Engen Jua Kali in Thika last week.
The supporters exchanged blows and roughed up each other during the funds drive.
Ng’ang’a accused her rival of storming the funds drive to cause chaos.
Wainaina on the other hand accused the MP of hijacking the funds drive. He claimed that he had planned the funds drive before it was hijacked by the MP.
Ng’ang’a asked aspirants contesting the seat to stop inciting locals ageist her. She said that she will not tolerate aspirants who want to intimidate her.
The Thika parliamentary seat has attracted several aspirants who have vowed to unseat Ng’ng’a in next year’s polls.