Nakuru County commissioner Mohammed Birik has warned politicians allegedly dishing out money to youths to cause violence saying they will arrested and prosecuted.
Speaking to journalists on Monday, the commissioner warned that action will be taken against any politician financing violence.
Birik who spoke in connection to the weekend incident where rowdy youths disrupted a ‘Pesa Mashinani’ signature collection exercise and burned referendum booklets at Kaptich trading center in Nakuru, the commissioner said that action will be taken against those implicated in the incident.
“I want to again warn politicians against using young people to cause violence. Every leader has the right and freedom to conduct his or her business or function in any part of the county,” said Birik.
The commissioner condemned the incident saying that investigations into the shameful incident are ongoing. He added that the law will not spare no one.
He said that they will not tolerate political intolerance being perpetuated by some politicians adding that perpetuators of hate politics will not be allowed in the county.
In the weekend incident, a section of rowdy allegedly descended on the officials, grabbed the booklets and burned them. They claimed that the county government had not been consulted for the exercise.
Nakuru Governor Kinuthia Mbugua has come under pressure over his move to ban the Coalition for Reform and Democracy (Cord) from collection referendum signatures in the county.