Machakos county governor Alfred Mutua has asked politicians and their supporters to stop politicking in funerals.
Mutua says that it unfortunate that politicians use funerals as a politicking ground.
Speaking during the burial of his uncle, Mr John Mbithe Kimeu at Kwa Kavoo village in Kimutwa ward, Machakos on Wednesday, Mutua asked politicians to respect the dead and their families.
“We as politicians must respect the dead and give their families time to mourn their kin,” he said.
Governor Mutua said that politicians had developed a habit of politicking at funerals.
Mutua claimed that politicians use funerals to propagate for cheap and selfish politics.
He asked the county assemblies across the country to consider coming up with laws to ban politicking at funerals.
Meanwhile, Governor Mutua’s political rivalry with senator Johnson Muthama played out at funeral after Muthama refused Mutua’s invite to address mourners.
Earlier on, governor Mutua had refused an invite to address mourners by his deputy Bernard Kiala.
However, Muthama addressed the coals after being invited by county women representative Dr Susan Musyoka.