Chaos, teargas as ODM and UDA MPs clash in a church function
Chaos erupted on Sunday at a church event in Kisii after a clash between ODM and UDA MPs disrupting a plannned fundraiser for hours
Chaos erupted on Sunday at a church event in Kisii after a clash between ODM and UDA MPs disrupting a planned fundraiser for hours.
Police were forced to lob teargas at the pulpit as tension escalated, sending scores of worshipers running for safety in Bomachoge Borabu before calm resumed.
The presiding cleric was also forced to do dramatic chants to ward off the ‘dark cloud’ that was hanging at the event.
The church fundraiser had brought five PAG churches at Etono area which was attended by six MPs from across the political divide.
The fundraiser was being presided over by South Mugirango MP and Chief Whip Sylvanus Osoro.
ODM MPs Obadiah Barongo and Kitutu Chache South MP Anthony Kibagendi were in attendance.
Others in attendance were MPs Japhet Nyakundi (Kitutu Chache North) Alfa Miruka (Bomachoge Chache), Patrick Osero (Borabu) and several pro-UDA ward reps.
Kibagendi had taken to the podium when suddenly hell broke lose.
Pockets of youths sandwiched among the congregants started jeering at him.
At some point, the microphone he was using was snatched away as youths chased him off the podium deeper into the dias where other MPs were sitting.
When the chaos threatened to get out of control, a police officer unleashed a tear gas cannister, sending the attendees to scamper.
Some legislators scrambled for water to fend off the effects of the teargas before the fundraiser resumed albeit to tense atmosphere.
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Bomachoge MP Obadiah Barongo said he had called Kibagendi as a “deployment to forestall attacks from the army of by UDA MPs that had attended the function”.
Signs of trouble had manifested when the MP walked into the church escorted by dozens of unruly boda boda riders who kept jeering at the UDA leaders as they addressed.
When the heat increased, Bomachoge Chache MP Alfa Miruka fled.
South Mugirango MP Sylvanus Osoro, later, calmed temperatures but took offense over the chaos.
He asked politicians to desist from violence especially in churches and apologised for the ugly turn of events.
Osoro also asked the youth to desist from being used to cause chaos in functions.
“Nobody should die for any politician, all of us here are brothers. All of you willl leave this function to your respective homes as we go to town to eat lunch together,” Osoro said.
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