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Kwale county women representative Zuleikha Juma has condemned the incident where Malindi MP Aisha Jumwa took away microphone as ODM Secrtary General made remarks in a burial ceremony in Kilifi.
Juma said the incident was completely disrespectful and totally meant to cast ODM in a bad light.
"It wasn’t just against the SG it was against the image of the party.
Politicians make all matter of statements at funerals, what does respecting mijikenda have anything to do with it? Aisha Jumwa doesn’t have a monopoly on the mijikenda",she said.
In a statement to the media the legislature said that if Aisha thought the SG had said something offensive, she could have sent him a note or gone and whispered to him instead of taking away microphone.
"Why take the microphone from him? Since she had already asked him to stop talking about the Party? She could have let him continue with any other points he wanted to make,"added Juma
The incident she said was made to make ODM look bad and look like a Party that doesn’t respect cultural nuance.
"It is also a plan to pit the mijikenda against ODM. I don’t even think it’s Mheshimiwa Aishas idea, I believe she is being taught to propagate that type of discourse. This is subtly meant to stoke the waBara against waPwani/waMijikenda sentiments and in this case the waBara are those in tribes stereotypically associated with ODM," she said.
She added that as peace loving Kenyans, "the majority of us are behind the handshake efforts between President Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga to bring cohesion between the different tribes of Kenya".
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