Gov Arati and MP Osoro fault each after violence rocks Kisii rally with shots being fired
Kisii Governor Simba Arati bursary distribution event in South Mugirango was on Monday, January 8 disrupted after shots were fired
Kisii Governor Simba Arati bursary distribution event in South Mugirango was on Monday, January 8 disrupted after shots were fired.
South Mugirango MP Sylvanus Osoro and Kisii County Governor Simba Arati on Monday traded words after a raid in the county chief’s rally.
In a press conference, Osoro refuted claims that he was the mastermind of the attack that wounded four of Arati’s supporters.
Rather, he charged that the security detail of the governor had arrived early and was “commandeering his car mounted with speakers, occasioning the skirmishes.”
The Majority Whip said he was presiding over an education function at the CDF offices when he was informed about the incident.
“I was not near then. I was about to head out to launch road construction work at Nyakembene when I heard that one of my cars had been commandeered off,” he stated.
Osoro said that it was when his supporters went for the car at the governor’s rally that the fight began resulting in the injury of his driver and one other staffer.
The fracas, he added, was the aftermath of the agitation to have the car released back to them.
“It was after they had failed that I went to secure the release of my car,” he stated.
” I think it was at that point that skirmishes erupted,” he told journalists.
He said the car was vandalized when recovered.
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He also accused Arati of orchestrating the destruction of the cars and the subsequent injury of two of his staff.
The duo were rushed to Nyamarambe Level Five Hospital for treatment.
Arati separately accused Osoro of unleashing terror on his supporters during the rally Monday afternoon.
Governor Arati was addressing the crowd moments before goons stormed the events and shots were fired on the air.
The locals who had come to receive bursaries from the Kisii Governor were forced to run away from the event.
Arati said four people sustained gunshot injuries during the incident.
Arati said he had filed the report of the attack on his rally and urged his supporters to remain calm.
Several cars in the motorcade were also stoned during the melee.
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