Timothy Bosire has criticised Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i for "celebrating' his removal from the
Kitutu Masaba MP post.
On Friday last week, Matiang’i thanked the people of Kitutu Masaba for rejecting Bosire in the August 8, 2017 polls and electing Shadrack Mose.
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In his response,
Bosire said the Minister's "choreographed visit" to the constituency, where he publicly celebrated his ouster, raises many questions.
He claimed Matiangi’s actions and utterances were aimed at removing him from office and silencing him.
“It is now evident that the powerful office of the President plotted and meddled with elections to squeeze out a properly elected MP and replace him with their stooge."
The legislator did not back these claims.
On Thursday, Bosire noted Kisii traditions prohibit any adult from celebrating another person’s downfall of demise.
“Matiang’i got ecstatic and made a celebratory run around Kitutu Masaba for my government-engineered defeated. He exhibited the height of demonic cruelty for reasons the public must be told,” he said in a statement in Nyamira town.
"Even witch doctors avoided publicly bragging about their success once their targets fall. Kenyans recall vividly how Jaramogi Oginga Odinga deeply mourned Jomo Kenyatta when he died in 1978 despite being big political enemies. That was wisdom and fidelity to our African culture and decorum.”
The ODM National Treasurer dared Matiang'í to vie for a political seat to test his popularity.
“Now that the CS is pretending to be a political master operative, why can’t he gather courage and join the fray in competitive politics? Why can’t he even start with vying for an MCA seat anywhere he thinks he is popular in Gusiiland so we see the number of votes he will manage?"
Bosire further told the CS to keep off the politics of Kitutu Masaba and concentrate on his role.
“Matiang’i is neither a voter nor a resident of the constituency to be so deeply embroiled in the electoral processes and events there.
"He is only an immigrant who settled in our neighborhood. Most African traditions prohibit visitors from taking over the authority and affairs of the hosts. Hasn’t he proven to be a rogue visitor in Nyamira, with the attitude and mindset of colonial chiefs of the old?"
Bosire termed his successor Mose an "OP-generated and propelled MP".
Mose garnered 33,386 votes, beating former MP Timothy Bosire, who managed 19,262 votes.
A petition against Mose's election was dismissed by the Nyamira High Court on Thursday.
Justice James Makau said there wasn't enough evidence to show the election was marred by irregularities.
In July last year, Bosire said Matiang'i may have been
"assigned the role of rigging" the election.
His assertions came after Matiang'i warned the National Super Alliance against its adopt-a-polling station plan.
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