Bahati MP Kimani Ngunjiri has asked the police to arrest and charge former Nairobi Mayor, George Aladwa, with incitement to ethnic hatred and violence.
In a press statement issued from Wellington, New Zealand where he accompanied the Parliamentary Select Committee on National Cohesion and Equal opportunities, Ngunjiri said that Aladwa's types of politics were outdated, uncouth and an affront to peaceful co-existence among the many ethnic groups in the country.
Aladwa was recently quoted as warning of deaths and violence should ODM leader, Raila Odinga's win, be stolen.
"How can a grown up and a responsible leader utter such incitements at a time when the country is going through a hearing process after the 2008 ethnic killings," Ngunjiri asked.
He said that the police and the judiciary will be held responsible should there be any ethnic flare up before and after the 2017 general elections since most of those leaders drumming up for hatred and violence were known.
"The police, DPP's office, Francis Ole Kaparo and the courts have become toothless bulldogs. They have not shown willingness to bite even after serious words of incitements have been uttered," Ngunjiri added.
He said that Aladwa's utterances were preparation of war as Kenyans approached the 2017 general election.
He challenged the former mayor to tell Kenyans of any flagship development he initiated to alleviate poverty and suffering of the poor people of Nairobi when he was the mayor.
Ngunjiri said that New Zealand, which is a quarter the size of Kenya, had peacefully accommodated 2013 ethnic groups while Kenya which has only 42 tribes and more resources has failed in embracing one another.
He said New Zealand and Kenya shared the same history since they were both colonized by the British who displaced the indigenous people and took their ancestral land.
"The British came here and took the land of Maoris who up to now have not been able to get it back. But the government institutions here work and every citizen's right have been addressed to foster a peaceful co-existence," Ngunjiri said.
He said that despite diversity in ethnic formation in New Zealand, all leaders from the 2013 different ethnic groups always speak in a manner to forge peaceful political transitions even while in the opposite sides of political divides.
"We would want to the same political maturity in Kenya where the prolific ethnic hatred inciters are discouraged by the application of our existing stringent laws,” he said.