{"id":121323,"date":"2025-09-12T19:07:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T19:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/09\/12\/mps-kibagendi-and-nyakundi-clash-at-funeral-over-president-ruto-and-matiangi\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T19:07:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T19:07:24","slug":"mps-kibagendi-and-nyakundi-clash-at-funeral-over-president-ruto-and-matiangi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/mps-kibagendi-and-nyakundi-clash-at-funeral-over-president-ruto-and-matiangi\/","title":{"rendered":"MPs Kibagendi and Nyakundi Clash at Funeral Over President Ruto and Matiang\u2019i"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KISII, Kenya Sept 12- Legislators Anthony Kibagendi and Japhet Nyakundi left mourns embarrassed after they almost exchanged blows at the burial service of former Governor James Ongwae\u2019s mother.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The scuffle occurred when Kibagendi was making his remarks in support of former Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang\u2019i\u2019s potential presidential bid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am asking our people to stand with Matiang\u2019i \u2014 both as a community and as a nation,\u201d said Kibagendi during his address.<\/p>\n<p>The moment took a turn for the worst when Kibagendi criticized President William Ruto, prompting MP Nyakundi \u2014 who was standing nearby \u2014 to approach him aggressively in an apparent attempt to grab the microphone from him and eject him from the podium.<\/p>\n<p>Security officers and supporters of the two MPs rushed up the podium to separate the two who were now shoving each other. At one point it looked like Nyakundi was going to push Kibagendi off the ledge of the podium.<\/p>\n<p>The funeral briefly came to a standstill as members of the political class walked out, though proceedings later resumed.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media after the incident, Kibagendi claimed he received cheers from mourners because he is not affiliated with the current administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I criticized the President, he [Nyakundi] was embarrassed because the crowd was cheering me on. That\u2019s when he grabbed the microphone from me and tried to provoke a physical altercation,\u201d said Kibagendi.<\/p>\n<p>He added that they would not allow President Ruto\u2019s allies to divide the Abagusii community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are united behind Matiang\u2019i. We are not intimidated. We will continue to speak out against bad governance, and we will not allow anyone to come here and insult Matiang\u2019i in his own backyard,\u201d Kibagendi stated.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KISII, Kenya Sept 12- Legislators Anthony Kibagendi and Japhet Nyakundi left mourns embarrassed after they almost exchanged blows at the burial service of former Governor James Ongwae\u2019s mother. The scuffle occurred when Kibagendi was making his remarks in support of former Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang\u2019i\u2019s potential presidential bid. \u201cI am asking our people to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}