Kikuyu elders threaten to curse MP Kuria
Kikuyu
elders threaten to curse MP Kuria
By Justus Karanja
Email:thingiragema@gmail.com
The Kikuyu Council of Elders
has threatened to curse Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria for disrespecting and abusing
President Uhuru Kenyatta.
If they administer the curse,
Kuria will become an outcast in the community.
The curse involves crushing calabashes
signaling his end.
A goat is also pierced with a
horn while incantations are made before the elders announce they have cursed the
culprit’s life.
The entire sacrificial goat is burnt which means
the curse is irreversible and nothing can be done to save the culprit.
Speaking on Thursday in
Gatundu, the elders distanced the Gikuyu Community from an alleged 1960 oath
that Kuria alleged was administered to the people and called for disciplinary
action against the controversial legislator.
The elders warned Kuria against
use of vulgar and obscene language and unprintable words, dismissing his
allegation of the oath as “wild and unfounded rubbish.”
They condemned the
‘unprintable’ utterances made by Kuria saying if not stopped, his “vulgar”
language might cause disunity in the country.
The elders took a swipe at the controversial
MP, regretting his behaviour is an embarrassment to the community and taints
the image of the council of which he is a member.
The elders led by Kiarie
Kamunguna and Njuru Ngugi who is the patron, said Kuria as an elite member of
the society should not be promoting hate and tribalism.
The visibly annoyed elders promised
to summon him to face the council’s disciplinary committee for flouting Kikuyu
community’s values and traditions.
They added that Kuria’s speech
during a recent campaign tour in Gatundu South was not only distasteful but
also primitive and sought to portray the community negatively in the eyes of
other Kenyans.
They castigated his alleged
invocation of the 1960’s alleged oath and dismissed it as rubbish and a
statement that the Chama Cha Kazi leader used to promote negative ethnicity.
They maintained that the oath,
if it was indeed taken, has no modern-day impact and can only affect the
children of grandparents who successfully took it and not the entire community
as Kuria suggested.
“It is a pity that Moses Kuria
who is a member of the council and a friend opted to go against our norms and
values. We have a disciplinary committee that will be summoning him and the
committee will decide the kind of punishment he will face,” Peter Kabi, another
elder, stated.
The elders said Kuria should be
denied any elective position saying he had not only shown his inability to
unite the nation but also presented himself as an immature leader who cannot be
trusted with the leadership of the community.
They apologised to President
Uhuru Kenyatta, on behalf of the community for the statements made by Kuria but
vowed to take actions against him to prevent him from making further statements.
The elders urged the relevant
government agencies such as National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC)
to wake up from slumber and expedite prosecution of all leaders found making
derogatory remarks that could plunge the country into disorder.
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