Worshippers Run For Their Lives as UDA and ODM MPs Throw Blows During a Church Function in Kisii.
Worshippers Run For Their Lives as UDA and ODM MPs Clash: Chaos was witnessed on Sunday at a church event in Kisii hindering a plannned fundraiser for hours.
Teargas cannisters were lobbed at the pulpit as tension ignited, Making worshipper scamper around the Etono grounds in Bomachoge Borabu.
The fundraiser was being presided over by South Mugirango MP and Chief Whip Sylvanus Osoro. In attendance ODM legislators Obadiah Barongo and Kitutu Chache South MP Anthony Kibagendi, MPs Japhet Nyakundi (Kitutu Chache North) Alfa Miruka (Bomachoge Chache), Patrick Osero (Borabu) and several pro-UDA ward reps.
Chaos started when Kibagendi stood up to speak, youths started heckling at him and At some point, the microphone he was using was snatched away as youths chased him off the podium.
When matters got out of hand, a police officer unleashed a tear gas cannister, sending the youth to scatter.
South Mugirango MP Sylvanus Osoro, later, calmed temperatures urging politicians to desist from violence especially in churches.
Osoro stated, “Nobody should die for any politician, all of us here are brothers. All of you willl leave this function to your respective homes as we go to town to eat lunch together.”
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