This comes after Natembeya’s and National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula’s supporters clashed during a funeral on Friday in what is perceived as a supremacy battle over the region’s political kingship.
MP Baya now claims that the chaos was initiated by Natembeya who intentionally arrived at the occasion with his alleged goons to cause unrest.
“He has been preparing to face Wetangula in a dual that is not civilized,” he said on Citizen TV’s Daybreak show Tuesday.
In Baya’s view, the speculated battles are a residue of Natembeya’s thirst for power and he is willing to go to any lengths to attain it.
“We have young leaders in this country who have no values and one of the leaders that we see now is Natembeya. He is so power hungry that he thinks the only way to dominate the region and to grasp power is to use the goons that we saw in that funeral,” he said.
“That is the only thing that he understands.”
The legislator maintained that Speaker Wetangula boasts a formidable political prominence in Kenya and Natembeya’s moves will turn futile.
“Wetangula is one person whose politics is way above but these younger leaders who feel threatened by his dominance imagine that he is fighting them. It’s a figment of their imagination,” he noted.
“They go and assemble goons and think that they can grab power from Wetangula. He does not need to fight for power. People in Western Kenya respect him, they love him as a leader who has been there for them for many years just the same way people in Nyanza love Raila.”
Since the burial incident, a video has been making rounds showing Natembeya addressing a crowd while making chants against Speaker Wetangula.
The crowd responded with “tawe” (no) to every statement Natembeya said.
“Hunger, ‘tawe’, Poverty, ‘tawe’, tribalism, ‘tawe’, favourism, ‘tawe’, Ford-Kenya, ‘tawe’, Wetangula, ‘tawe’.”
