MP Nyikal lectures Senator Tom Ojienda for showing up with goons at funeral
MP Nyikal lectures Senator Tom Ojienda for showing up with goons at funeral
Seme MP James Nyikal has accused Kisumu Senator Tom Ojienda of failing to restrain a group of people he said accompanied the senator to his father’s funeral, claiming the confrontation nearly turned deadly for his son.
Speaking on Saturday, May 2, Nyikal recounted the moment he approached Ojienda to calm down his supporters during the commotion.
“I walked to Senator Tom Ojienda, and I asked him, ‘these people came with you. Can you tell them to stop?’ Senator, were you able to stop them? They almost killed my son,” he said.
Nyikal went on to question the nature of political popularity, arguing that genuine support should allow leaders to attend community events without needing large entourages.
“Let us be truly popular; let us be able to walk to funerals alone. I think popularity is love; you may get it with money, but it will be lust, not love,” he added.
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This comes a week after Kisii Senator Richard Onyonka escaped the wrath of suspected goons after encountering them while on his way to Bondo, Siaya County.
The senator, coming from a Linda Mwananchi political rally in Vihiga, was to reunite with his colleagues at Kang’o Ka Jaramogi where they were to pay homage to the late Raila Odinga before proceeding to Kisumu, where they would be organising another political rally.
Onyonka made a stopover at a hotel near Bondo but on alighting from his vehicle to enter the hotel, the suspected goons had already surrounded him.
They were declaring that they won’t allow him in owing to his political stance.
Onyonka blamed his predicament on President William Ruto, whom he accused of patronising goons to counter his critics.
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