Members of the National Assembly have sought to censure and demand the arrest of former deputy president Rigathi Gachagua due to what they deem unbecoming conduct.

On Tuesday afternoon, May 27, Suna East MP Junet Mohamed moved a motion in which he brought to the attention of his colleagues what he termed as Gachagua's dangerous conduct, which he argued was threatening the security of the nation as the 2027 electioneering period draws near.

The house had just resumed from its brief four-week recess.

Junet, who is also the leader of the minority side, based his motion on Gachagua's pronouncement in a YouTube interview he appeared in on May 16.

The former deputy president is quoted as having said that should the 2027 presidential vote be rigged, the country would be unsettled, drawing an instance from the 2007/08 political crisis.

Junet said such sentiments were bordering on incitement and, if condoned, would spark violence.

"The constitution guarantees every Kenyan the right to assemble, demonstrate, and picket peacefully and unarmed. But that right ends where violence begins. No leader, including the former deputy president, has the right to manipulate public sentiments to incite unrest, destruction of property, or the loss of innocent lives," Junet said.

The MP observed that Gachagua's sentiments had begun to witness pockets of unrest, especially in Nyeri, where Mathira MP Eric Wamumbi was recently cornered in the midst of the former deputy president's supporters.

He called on the deployment of the National Cohesion Integration Act to charge the former deputy president, arguing that the law enacted in 2008 criminalises such utterances as his (Gachagua's).

Junet observed that Kenya had made progress from the crisis witnessed immediately after the 2007 vote, calling for action against Gachagua to maintain the strides made since the disputed election.

He faulted the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) for being unentreprising in its mandate to drive sanity and discipline among Kenyans partaking in explosive utterances.

"The NCIC summoned Gachagua, and he refused to appear before it, and he seems to be above the law, yet that is a commission funded by the taxpayers' money. He refuses whenever he is invited by the NCIC, the DCI and even the EACC. Who is going to protect Kenyans against him? The government looks like it is unable to jail him. If this government was formed by ODM, he would be in jail by now," Junet said.

Source: TUKO.co.ke