
The brutal assassination of Kasipul MP Ong’ondo Were, gunned down in his car at a Nairobi traffic stop, is a grotesque stain on Kenya’s conscience. Such violence against a sitting lawmaker demands not only outrage but collective introspection.
Yet even as the nation reels, Homa Bay Governor Gladys Wanga, chairperson on ODM, chose a path of division, declaring that members of President William Ruto’s UDA would be barred from the MP’s funeral.