Journalist Larry Madowo has refuted claims of escalating his public spat with Kibra Member of Parliament (MP) Peter Orero.

Taking to his X page on Sunday, October 12, 2025, the journalist instead threw the challenge back to citizens to be brave enough and demand accountability from their leaders.

Madowo dismissed assertions that he should let the matter rest, stressing that it was beyond him.

Gone overboard?

“A person has made accusations against me regarding the incident that I am going overboard by being embroiled in a controversy against a fellow tribesman and that I should slow down on it,” he stated.

In a passionate call to action, he stressed the importance of speaking truth to people in power as an accountability measure.

He argued that the absence of speaking truth to power has led to Kenya’s decline in upholding good governance and civil decorum.

Acceptable standards

“We have people who behave badly and do not fear us as common people since they are in power. Most of them are haughty with no respect for ordinary people. We are lagging because we are not telling the truth to the people we have elected, but we are not doing so. So, I am not a part of that,” he said.

His remarks come as the debate continues to rage following the video where he captured the legislator flouting traffic rules before hurling a few expletives at him.

Commenting on the incident, Kileleshwa MCA Robert Alai defended the action of the MP, stating that the tight schedules under which parliamentarians operate while trying to meet deadlines could tempt one to flout traffic rules.

”You people don’t know the crazy life of a politician moving between constituency matters to the assembly and probably still supposed to even attend some committees elsewhere. From your hate of politicians, you attack Mwalimu Otero while not even trying to understand what he was going through,” Alai said.

During the confrontation, Madowo had declined to make way for the legislator; he instead attempted to stop the lawmaker from passing on the wrong side of the road.