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They Are Hiring And Transporting Supporters In Rallies, Moses Kuria Snitches On Kenya Kwanza

SK 2 years ago 2 min read

Moses Kuria, a Gatundu MP, has accused the Kenya Kwanza alliance of hiring crowds during rallies.
During an interview with Citizen TV, On Sunday, June 20, MP claimed that United Democratic Alliance (UDA) politicians were using buses to transport supporters in order to give the impression that they have supporters everywhere and to be cheered at rallies.

Gatundu MP, Moses Kuria
The outspoken politician vowed never to engage in such politics, calling it “politics of deception.”

“I think there is a problem that is happening in Kenya Kwanza, which for me I found unfortunate. I vowed never to engage in. Whereby we transport… We are having nine meetings in three constituencies or four constituencies. And then somebody tags along their supporters, their fans… I feel, my position is if I am going for a meeting in Limuru I should go just alone so that I can be able to see whether I got legitimate supporters in Limuru. And that’s what I do,” Kuria said.

He revealed that UDA employs tens of buses, lorries, and pickup trucks to transport supporters from one political rally to the next.

“But then my worthy competitors what they do is that have got tens and tens of buses and lorries and pickups and they transport their fans from one place then they release them and then they go to the next and the next so that they are cheered,” he said.

Such political strategies, according to Kuria, distort market dynamics because they are based on fictitious crowds.

“And the problem is first of all one, that distorts what I call in my other language market dynamics because you don’t really get to know whether you’ve got real supporters on the ground. Second thing what does it do to me who is not transporting these people? You know it looks like it’s a Kabogo versus Wamatangi thing,” he lamented.