Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka has hinted at the party's plans to expel Dadaab MP Farah Maalim, who issued controversial remarks on Friday, January 10.
The lawmaker had accompanied President William Ruto on his working tour of the North Rift.
In one of the president's stopovers, Maalim was accorded a chance to address the gathering, to which he spoke unprintables while defending the president against critics.
The MP basically declared that Ruto would not leave the presidency soon, as demanded by the naysayers of his administration.
His inflammatory remarks irked Kenyans online; a majority criticised the lawmaker, with some linking his character to the sympathisers of the Somalia-based al-Shabaab insurgent group.
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Some Kenyans asked Kalonzo to address the matter; Maalim was elected on a Wiper party ticket.
Breaking his silence, Kalonzo asked Maalim to consider resigning from the party, and not wait to be expelled.
"I condemn Farah Maalim's remarks in the strongest terms possible. Today's outrageous utterances I will advice him to resign and not wait to be thrown out. His actions were shameful," said Kalonzo.
This would not be the first instance in which the lawmaker is facing trouble over his remarks.
In July 2024, he was summoned by the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) after his controversial remarks on the anti-government protests.
NCIC said it was investigating the utterances of the Daadab MP made in the Somali language during the Gen Z demonstrations against the Finance Bill 2024.
The commission noted that Maalim’s remarks were 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 offense as provided under Section 63 (c) as read with Section 63 (e) of the NCI Act,” NCIC added.
This came after a video of Maalim emerged online where 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.
