A section of Trans Nzoia County residents now claims gubernatorial candidate George Natembeya has failed in integrity test.
They want him disqualified from the Trans Nzoia County gubernatorial contest.
Addressing the media at Kachibora area, in Cherangany Constituency, the locals said the former Rift Valley Regional Commissioner is unfit to hold any public office.
This follows recent remarks made by the former administrator that have since went viral on social media.
In the video, the DAP-K gubernatorial candidate laments that a certain community was the majority in one of the constituencies in the county but had allowed a person from a minority community to be their leader.
Led by Alexander Ronoh, the angry residents said the remarks were meant to incite two major communities living in the highly cosmopolitan county.
“We are deeply concerned and disturbed by one ethnic incitement remarks made by one George Natembeya, we strongly condemn the remarks,” Ronoh said.
Ferdinand Wanyisia, the Bukusu community peace Coordinator and Loveryne Cherop, a youth leader in Cherang’any Constituency asked Natembeya to make a public apology to the electorates.
“Having gone through bad experience in the past especially in 2007/2008 Post-Election Violence, we are worried that such remarks may breed and fuel inter-ethnic tension a head of August elections, Natembeya should be compelled to apologize,” Cherop appealed.
Lilian Nungari on her part called on the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) and other law enforcement agencies to summon Natembeya for interrogation. .
“We do not want to have a highly charged elections period in this county. We appeal to NCIC to summon Natembeya so that he can shade more light on his reckless remarks,” she said.
Responding to media inquiries, Natembeya said he was misquoted and called for peaceful co-existence.
“My remarks were taken out of context. I did not mean to incite one community against the other,” Natembeya said.
