Trans Nzoia Governor George Natembeya has broken silence after chaos broke out in his county during a funeral attended by National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula.
Expressing his disappointments over the fracas, Natembeya said that chaos ensued after several buses arrived at the burial site, transporting unidentified individuals from Bungoma.
According to Natembeya, Moses Wetangula is sorely responsible for the chaos having attended the funeral in his county without prior informing him, contrary to the protocol.
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“The speaker should have paid us a courtesy call and told us he was coming. That is protocol. I got to the venue of the burial and tried to calm the youth down and all of a sudden tear gas was sent our way.”
However, Natembeya claims that he received a call a day earlier by his intelligence sources and warned against attending the burial ceremony, as someone had hired buses to ferry people from Bungoma for the burial.
“I was warned not to go to the burial because they suspected something was going to happen, but the burial was within my county, I had to go.”
Natembeya has requested investigations to establish the person behind the instructions to lobby teargas at him and the youths on the ground, terming it as illegal.
“Whoever instructed those people to fire the teargas at us should be arrested. Because there were old people and women present at the burial.”
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This comes after chaos erupted during a burial ceremony on Friday at the Goseta area in Trans Nzoia County, after supporters of Speaker Wetangula and Governor Natembaya clashed.
Police were forced to lobby teargas to disperse the rowdy youth who disrupted the event and destroyed property of unknown value.