Embakasi East MP Babu Owino has accused Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu of straining her country's relationship with Kenya, and called for intervention from external parties.
Owino has further slammed the Tanzanian MPs for dispensing "juvenile rants" and mistreating unarmed Kenyans, moves he has warned are destroying the healthy relationship and the history Kenya and Tanzania have shared over the years.
In a statement on Tuesday, May 27, the lawmaker said that the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and the African Union (AU) should spearhead dialogue between the two countries to restore peace between the countries. "How can it be that patriotic unarmed Kenyans who cross into a neighbouring country can be arrested, held incommunicado, tortured and deported by a nation with whom we share a national language and whose people and ours overlap in origin, descent and culture more than 60 per cent?" the MP said.
A photo collage of President William Ruto and his Tanzanian counterpart Samia Suluhu. "We call upon the leaders of the East African Community, IGAD, and the AU to engage in meaningful dialogue that will de-escalate any unnecessary tensions between the citizens of our region for the sake of international security, peace, and effective mobility of people and goods across our borders," he added.
