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Ban 'Tanga Tanga' rallies, State told

MPs Godfrey Otsosi (Nominated), Samuel Atandi (Alego Usonga), Caleb Amisi (Saboti) and Lillian Gogo (Rangwe) during the press conference. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

Some Opposition MPs want the Tanga Tanga Movement, a group of MPs supporting Deputy President William Ruto’s 2022 presidential ambitions, banned from holding rallies.

The eight lawmakers claimed the MPs went round the country spreading hate speech, in violation of the political truce - handshake - between President Uhuru Kenyatta and Opposition chief Raila Odinga.

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