Moses Kuria launches another vile attack on Raila Odinga

Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria. Photo: Beverlyne Musili, Standard

Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria has once again triggered public outrage with an abusive attack on Opposition leader Raila Odinga and the National Super Alliance.

In a live stream on his Facebook page, the MP hurled insults at Raila and his family, using obscene words that The Standard cannot publish.

The offensive utterances, disguised as criticism of the Opposition leader whom he said had become a headache to the Jubilee administration, were uttered at a rally in Kiambu in the company of Governor Ferdinand Waititu and Limuru MP Peter Mwathi.

Mr Kuria complained that some 100,000 people in Kiambu voted for the NASA presidential candidate and urged the crowd to look for those opposition voters and present them to him 'accompanied by their grandmothers'.

He was unhappy that in the Mount Kenya region Raila received 300,000 votes, which he inferred were even more than had been cast for Mr Odinga in Rift Valley.

The MP, who has a history of indulging in hate speech, begun by asking the crowd whether they believed the August 8 elections were rigged, as claimed by Raila.

He then hurled obscenities at Raila and criticised the ruling by the Supreme Court nullifying President Uhuru Kenyatta's victory.

He dismissed the four judges who nullified the vote, questioning how four people could render the over eight million votes cast in favour of Uhuru useless in just five minutes.

Kuria attacked Raila's public criticism of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, saying it would not matter whether he (Raila) put his family to oversee the elections since Jubilee would win.

Speaking in Kikuyu, he said: "We gave birth to a baby. That baby did not die in the womb or in the maternity. It had started breastfeeding but he came and killed the baby. Would you forgive such a person?" asked Kuria.

Kuria declared he was ready to face the consequences over his attack on Raila. "For how long will Raila pester us? Let me get jailed. Where will they take me? Who were the prisons built for? Wasn't Mandela jailed and released?" he asked.