On Friday, July 12, Daadab MP Farah Maalim was sent out of the Sarova Whitesands Hotel in Mombasa, where he had checked in as a guest.
The hotel's chief executive officer, Jimi Kariuki, confirmed.
Kariuki was responding to a query by a Kenyan who had wondered why the facility would allow the lawmaker in despite his incendiary remarks against the Kenyan young population.
The hotel was categorical that it would not associate its brand with Maalim over his recent talk against the demonstrators protesting the Finance Bill 2024.
The lawmaker is on record asserting in Somali vernacular that if he were the president, he would kill over 5,000 young Kenyans for revolting against the government.
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"He is no longer a guest at our hotel. We asked him to leave the hotel earlier in the day. We do not in any way condone his inflammatory and threatening statements against Kenyans and will not associate our brand with such a person," said Kairuki via X.
This came days after the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) summoned Maalim after his controversial remarks.
In a statement on Wednesday, July 10, NCIC ordered Maalim to appear before the commission’s offices on Thursday, July 11 at 11:00 am.
“The National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) has summoned Daadab Member of Parliament, Hon. Farah Maalim, to appear before the Commission this Thursday, 11th July 2024, at 11.00 A.M. at its offices on the 17th Floor, Britam Tower, Hospital Road, Upper hill, Nairobi,” read the statement in part.
NCIC noted that it is investigating the utterances of the Daadab MP made in Somali language, on the Gen Z demonstrations against the Finance Bill 2024.
The commission noted that Maalim’s remarks are likely to incite feelings of contempt, hatred, hostility, violence, or discrimination and affect harmonious coexistence between groups of different political affiliations in Kenya.
“Hon. Farah Maalim is required to appear before the Commission to assist with the aforementioned ongoing investigations. Failure to appear in person at the said place, date, and time, is an offence as provided under Section 63 (c) as read with Section 63 (e) of the NCI Act,” NCIC added.
This was after a video of Maalim emerged online, in which the Wiper MP claimed that the young people who took to the streets in the recent protests were from wealthy backgrounds and largely from one community.
Maalim openly said he would have wiped them out in their thousands if he was the Kenyan President.
"God forbid if I was president I would have slaughtered them, 5,000 of them daily. Serious, there is no two ways about it," said the Daadab MP.
