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Clashes Political, Says Minister
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- Published on Sunday, 22 July 2007 22:27
The aim of the Nyaribari Masaba fights was to destabilising the ruling party Kanu, Public Health Minister Sam Ongeri claimed over the weekend.
However, Prof Ongeri declined to comment on allegations that the skirmishes were between his supporters and those of political nemesis Simeon Nyachae.
Speaking to reporters at Gesusu, the minister said police were hunting the culprits.
"I will comment on the political interference in my constituency only after police have completed investigations," he added.
Prof Ongeri, who is the Kisii Kanu branch chairman, claimed his rivals were planning demos against him in major towns throughout the country to burn his effigy.
"I have always advised my people to coexist and treat one another with respect, " he said. "They know fighting is dangerous. This is my message to all Kenyans," he said.
He challenged his detractors to invest money in poverty alleviation projects, not in violence.
The planned demos were meant to depict him and Kanu as irrelevant locally.
Last week, a demo to be staged against the minister along the Kisii-Keroka road flopped when police sealed the routes leading to Keroka township.
Meanwhile, Mr Nyachae's mother, Mrs Bosibori Nyandusi, has criticised Prof Ongeri for dragging her name into his political differences with her son.
Mrs Nyandusi, 101, said she did not influence her son's political decisions, as claimed by Prof Ongeri.
"It is naive for anybody to expect me not to discuss politics with Simeon simply because he is a government critic," she added.
But Mrs Nyandusi was among the first people to join Ford-People, a party lately associated with Mr Nyachae.
