Jubilee Party on Wednesday said it will dismiss its members involved in violence during the ongoing grassroot elections.
JP secretary general Veronica Maina said several cases have been reported during the elections at the county level.
She said the party will employ tough disciplinary measures to lock out those found guilty of violating the party's laws from taking part in the 2017 poll.
"We will punish the candidates who used violence to oust genuine competitors from free and fair grassroot elections," Maina said.
She added the party's national office will give a statement after investigations on the chaos, citing that the elections were peaceful in most parts of the country.
"Jubilee Party will continue with its county elections to pick 19 interim officials in the 47 counties," Maina told the Star in an interview.
The chaos that marred the polls left scores injured. In some cases, police were forced to fire teargas to disperse the warring crowds.
The altercations in the elections which kicked off on Tuesday, December 13 were largely witnessed at the Coast, Embu and Nakuru.
In Mombasa, former TNA secretary general Onyango Oloo,
who was the returning officer, was frogmarched by Ramadhan Mwatsahu out of Kenya School of Government.
The school's property was damaged following the Wednesday chaos.
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The exercise also failed in Homa Bay after two factions fought over the choice of venue.
One of the factions planned to hold their elections within Homa Bay
town while another group scheduled the same at a hotel in Rodi Kopany - 12 kilometres away from the town.
Lawyer Atieno Otieno, the
returning officer, had a difficult time in attempts to calm the groups which later converged at the Homa Bay police station.
"We will not allow leaders to be imposed on us. We must undertake this
election transparently," shouted one of the delegates.
Homa Bay police boss Esau Ochorokodi said: "The delegates disagreed over their own issues before they came to us
at the stone to seek help,"
"We ensured no violence took place even
though their election also failed," Ochorokodi said.