Kuja Azimio! Meru Residents Tell Sen. Linturi

Meru Senator Mithika Linturi had a rough time addressing residents of his county yesterday [Sunday] after a group of unruly youths chanted him down.

Viral video footage, of the incident, shows the MP struggling to address Meru residents who are heard chanting pro-Azimio La Umoja slogans. Azimio La Umoja is a coalition fronted by ODM leader Raila Odinga while the embattled aspiring senator [Linturi] is a die-hard member of the Kenya Kwanza Alliance. The Senator, who launched his Meru governor seat bid on the same day, is seen in the video unable to address the crowd and is forced to let the group continue chanting.

it can be recalled that this incident came a few days after the MP was interrupted while addressing the CITAM church in Meru. This is after he began disparaging the ODM leader Raila Odinga in his address forcing the presiding Bishop to cut him short.

in that incident, Bishop Calisto Odede explained to him before the congregation that as a church, they are not in the business of taking political sides as their house of worship welcomes all across the political divide.

"As a church, we try to minister to people from different political parties without creating any sense of animosity.

"In a function like this, which in our church, we try to maintain that attitude that everything else comes, whether you are UDA, ODM, or Jubilee, you are welcomed here," Odede said

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The Senator was then allowed to continue his address to the congregation upon apologizing