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I didn’t unleash youths on Barasa, I saved him from them, says Simba Arati

Dagoretti North MP Simba Arati with ODM leader Raila Odinga at a past function. The legislator has denied unleashing youths on his Jubilee colleagues during the Kibra by-election. [Standard]

Dagoretti North MP Simba Arati has denied unleashing Kibra youths on his Kimilili counterpart Didmus Barasa, saying he is the one who saved him from the mob after word went round that they were bribing voters.

A section of Jubilee leaders have accused Arati and other ODM legislators of using youths to harass their colleagues during the Kibra by-election.

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