Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Secretary-General Edwin Sifuna has responded bitterly after exiled lawyer Miguna Miguna dragged his name to the cremation of deceased Kibra MP Ken Okoth.
Sifuna denied being involved in Okoth's family plan to cremate the ex-legislator and claimed the outspoken lawyer was suffering from mental problems and arrogance, among other ills that he said will finally kill him.
"I used to fear the state would kill you. Now I know you will die from a cocktail of ignorance, loneliness, sadness, regret, self-hate, and of course debilitating mental problems," he said in a tweet on Thursday.
Miguna had claimed the ODM chief conspired with Okoth's wife, Monica Okoth, to secretly cremate the ex-MP so he can inherit the Kibra parliamentary seat.
"Edwin Sifuna was not Ken Okoth's lawyer. They never got along well. Sifuna injected himself onto the matter purportedly on behalf of Monica Okoth; not on behalf of the family or Ken Okoth. Sifuna was paving his selfish way to contest the Kibra by-election. Conflict of interest," Miguna posted on Twitter.
To keep the record straight, Sifuna said he was not part of a case filed by Nairobi MCA Ann Thumbi stopping Okoth's cremation, noting the widow, who was a respondent, was represented by city lawyer Walter Kontos.
"Walker Kontos represent Monica. Ken was not a named respondent. Ken and I got along fine," the former Nairobi senatorial seat contender added.
Okoth was cremated at Kariokor in Nairobi on Saturday in a ceremony that was not attended by some of his close family members including his mother Angelina Ajwang.