ODM Party leader Raila Odinga with his deputy Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho at a past event. Photo/ nairobinews.the-star.co.ke
Lunga Lunga MP Khatib Mwashetani has dared ODM Party leader Raila Odinga and his deputy Hassan Joho to hold a rally in Kwale County.
The MP said the duo will not be able to hold successful rallies in the county.
"Let them come and hold a successful rally if they are men enough,” said the MP on Wednesday.This comes after the MP was on Monday booed during the burial of Kwale Senator Boy Juma Boy, when he took to the podium to deliver President Uhuru Kenyatta's condolence speech.The MP, however, rubbished claims that he was heckled, saying the county has been transformed into a Jubilee zone, and those who engaged in the booing were drunk youth ferried from other areas.He faulted the opposition for politicising the event, adding that he will organise goons for future opposition rallies in Kwale.He claimed that ODM leaders had paid the goons to intimidate him and Governor Salim Mvurya, to revenge for being heckled during the last rally they held in his constituency.“My expectations were not for the function to be politicised. Otherwise, if I knew the function would be politicised, then I would have prepared myself. If they can come with goons I can also organise my goons. And I’m ready. I dare them. I’m telling you, that is the last rally they will do peacefully in Kwale,” said Mwashetani, as quoted by The Star.Mwashetani, who last year decamped from Ford Kenya to Jubilee, said the Uhuru-led party will win big in Kwale come August 8.