The youngest elected Member o+ Honoured John Paul Mwirigi, has found himself on the wrong side of the law.
The 24-years -old lawmaker is accused of physically assaulting a man that is reportedly led his constituents to demonstrations over poor roads.
The victim, John Gikunda alias Wanugu, narrated that the Igembe South MP manhandled and throttle his neck in public on Sunday.
Gikunda said the first-time MP reprimanded him by tarnishing his name.
“Yesterday as I was going home from church I met with several vehicles and one of them, a Range Rover, stopped and I saw the MP. He called me and asked why we were demonstrating without addressing him first," Wanugu is quoted as saying by Citizen Digital.
" I told him we are suffering because of this poor road. He got angry and accused me that I’m leading a war against him. It is then that he got out of the car, charged at him and held me by the neck,” recalled Gikunda.
“Lucky enough as we were speaking, a crowd had gathered to see mheshimiwa. So the locals intervened and that is when the MP let me go.The lawmaker, however, has denied any wrongdoing against the victim, accusing him of engineering all sort of propaganda in a view to tarnishing his name and reputation.
“I never tried or attempted to throttle Wanugu and the allegations he’s making against me are meant to taint my name in bad light, I cannot engage myself in such kind of politics he want to drag me into,” he said.“Let the law take its cause for the truth to be known.”
However, the youthful MP has now been given an ultimatum of two weeks by his constituents to apologize over his misconduct lest they will carry out the mother of all demonstrations.