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Truth behind Magerer Langat attack

ODM's Magerer Langat is dragged out of a CORD parliamenatry group meeting at Orange House, Thursday [PHOTOS: GOVEDI ASUTSA/STANDARD]

Amid revelations that top ODM leadership plotted the violence against party Executive Director Magerer Langat, party leader Raila Odinga Friday said some of the goons who assaulted his party’s top official had “owned up” for the violence.

The party leader of the country’s largest opposition party asked the police to step in and “ensure justice is done”, because apart from those who had confessed, there were others “were clearly captured by camera.”
The shocking assault which has given the ruling Jubilee coalition political fodder to besmirch its number one tormentor has now found its way into the agenda of the National Executive Committee meeting to be held next Tuesday at Orange House.

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