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Kalonzo Musyoka’s Wiper party has proposed that Daadab MP Farah Maalim be expelled from the party as well as the position of the Deputy Party leader.

Maalim has been on the receiving end for allegedly making utterances that border on inflammatory, targeting the youth popularly known as Gen Z for taking to the streets opposing the Finance Bill 2024, which has since been withdrawn.

In the undated video, which has gone viral, Maalim, while speaking in the Somali dialect, said that if he were the President of Kenya he would have “slaughtered” 5,000 young protesters every day.

A verified video translation reveals that the legislator was censuring Kenyan Gen Z for their attempt to march to State House during the anti-finance Bill 2024 protests.

“This was an attempted coup, a clear attempted coup. Children of wealthy business owners, wealthy parents and kids raised on ill-gotten wealth, 80 per cent from one tribe were dropped off in downtown and told to riot and take over State House and Parliament buildings,” he said.

“God forbid if I was president I would have slaughtered them, 5,000 of them daily. Serious, there is no two ways about it,” he said.

Defended himself

But Maalim has defended himself saying the video was edited to paint him in a bad picture.

“It’s all editing, cutting and pasting, taking a word from here, another one from here and putting it together. There is a lot of nonsense there. It’s Somalis basically who would do that because I weighed in on their politics. It’s not the true picture,” he said.

The ensuing uproar that has now escalated with the party holding a special National Executive Council (NEC) meeting and resolved to expel the Dadaab lawmaker.

“NEC recommends expulsion from the Party to the National Delegates Convention (NDC) – the supreme organ of the party. NEC’s decision is that the Farah Maalim be de-whipped from all Committees in Parliament including the Speaker’s Panel,” said Wiper Party Secretary General Shakila Abdalla.

She went on: “Regarding the conduct and statements attributed to Deputy Party Leader Farah Maalim, let it be known clearly that the Wiper Democratic Movement party distances and disassociates itself from these remarks. They go against our guiding principles and values as a party.”

This even as the embattled MP was summoned by the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) to shed light on his controversial comments regarding the recent protests that rocked the country last week.

NCIC said it is investigating utterances made by the MP in Somali language, where he said he would ‘slaughter 5000 Gen Z protesters’ if he were president of Kenya. “The utterances are likely to incite feelings of contempt, hatred, hostility, violence or discrimination, and affect harmonious coexistence between groups of different political affiliations in Kenya, contrary to Section 13 (1) (a) of the NCI Act,” NCIC said.