Police have launched investigations on Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria over inflammatory remarks he made on Sunday in Nairobi.
The MP was caught on video calling for the assassination of Opposition leader Raila Odinga. The video has gone viral on social media.
He made the remarks during a thanksgiving service for a veteran radio presenter at Safaricom indoor stadium, Kasarani.
Police have also launched investigations on remarks made by Kabete MP Ferdinand Waititu at the same event.
Mr Kuria has a pending case for incitement to violence after he urged some of his constituents in 2015 to slash opponents of the National Youth Services programmes with machetes.
He was released on bail.
Cord on Monday called for the prosecution of Mr Kuria over his Sunday’s remarks.
If Moses Kuria's statements go unpunished, we will assume he is speaking for gov't leaders who protect him as he stokes ethnic tensions.
— CORD. (@VoteCORD) June 13, 2016
The National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) chairman Francis Ole Kaparo has said that Mr Kuria and his Bahati counterpart Kimani Ngunjiri will be summoned this week to answer to charges of hate speech.
Addressing a media briefing on Monday, Mr Kaparo said that he will ask the courts to cancel Mr Kuria’s bail on the incitement to violence case.
Kenyans camped on Twitter on Monday morning to express their displeasure at the MP’s remarks.
What will it take to have Moses Kuria in jail? Do we need like footage of him with someone's blood on him as he wields a weapon?
— Brian K. (@Yenyewe) June 13, 2016
Jail Moses Kuria & anyone else inciting hate. On camera calling for murder. How does any human find this acceptable? https://t.co/jw4xlbfXAq
— Ann McCreath (@AnnMcCreath) June 13, 2016
I have a translation of a Moses Kuria speech yesterday that's outrightly criminal. The type that start civil wars. I'm ashamed to know him.
— The Makodingo® (@makodingo) June 13, 2016
No way in hell I'd be caught dead cheering or supporting Moses Kuria. I'm a Kikuyu and its safe to say I loathe that clown.
— MJ (@ItsMJ254) June 13, 2016
Anyone who is a supporter of Moses Kuria is the biggest scum in the world. That man is a xenophobe and mafia
— mo dahir (@Mohameddahir12) June 3, 2016
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