Kalonzo Musyoka's Wiper party has condemned the vernacular song whose lyrics have been judged to portray members of the Kamba community in bad light.
Executive director Jared Maaka said the song creates inter-ethnic animosity between the Kamba community and their Kikuyu neighbours.
The party also recommended that charcoal trade is banned not only in Kitui but also in the entire country to prevent imminent environmental disaster.
"We cannot continue with the same state of affairs that allows unscrupulous traders to destroy our future," Maaka said in a statement on Tuesday.
In the derogatory song, musicians Isaiah and Waharaka say that "Kambas depend only on mangoes and when the fruit is out of season, they will eat dogs."
Wiper holds that Kambas and Kikuyus have lived harmoniously as neighbours for hundreds of years hence no one should be allowed to create a wedge between them.
"It is, therefore, extremely foolhardy for some wayward social misfits to think that they have an unfettered license to foment animosity between the two communities."
Maaka said it was insensitive for the musicians to condemn the ban on charcoal using abusive language whereas many parts of Ukambani is wasted due to uncontrolled logging and charcoal burning.
He said the party stands with Kitui governor Charity Ngilu, whose ban on charcoal trade in the county apparently motivated the musicians to compose the song.
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"We would like to state categorically and unequivocally that we are firmly in support of Ngilu’s stand on charcoal burning as a means to stem the impending environmental disaster wrought by human activities," Maaka said.
NCIC on Monday said it is investigating the song, which is titled Ikamba.
Makueni Senator Mutula Kilonzo Junior has also written to the DPP demanding that the song is pulled down from the website and the artistes arrested and charged.
He said the song was exciting ethnic hatred and spewing vitriol against a community with no justifiable cause.
Maaka supported Mutula’s actions and called on the concerned authorities to take stern action against the musicians.
"The ball is now on the part of the law enforcement agencies to see to it that this matter is expeditiously dispensed with," he said.
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