A sombre mood yesterday engulfed Kachien village in Oyugis as mourners gathered to bury the body of slain MP Ong'ondo Were amid calls to the government to bring his killers to book.
And in a controversial call and a case of an eye for an eye, ODM leader Raila Odinga said that those who murdered the MP must meet the same fate. Raila also moved to strengthened his ODM party and restore order following persistent squabbles between his allies over the so-called broad-based government.
Raila, who described Were's death as a political assassination, said that his blood cannot go in vain, adding that he knows those who murdered the MP. "We will not accept that the blood of Ong'ondo can be spilled like this, and those who killed him are not killed," he said.
In his speech, Raila recounted how the slain MP had expressed fears for his life and described his murder as unfortunate, adding that political assassinations should not take place in a democracy.
