“THE FIGHT”, who is telling the truth?

by jelly kihara and moses nyamori

MUSO chairman, Mwamburi Mwang’ombe, and a former assistant secretary general, Victor Mairura, on Friday engaged in a physical fight at student centre.

The chairman, who was just from The 3rd Eye Media Week, was being quizzed by a group of students over the deteriorating state of comrades’ affairs, especially the soaring state of insecurity. He then decided to call the chief security officer for the comrades to verify whatever he was telling them on the measures being taken to curb the vice. Mairura, who was having a drink next to them, heard the chair’s conversation with Major Kiplagat on loud speaker mode tone and intervened, terming the act an unethical.

During an interview on Saturday in his room, Mairura said that Mwamburi grabbed him on the neck and fist him on the head. He then retaliated by hitting the chair with a bottle of soda next to his right eye.

Mairura, who distanced himself with the opposition, said that the chair raced him in the student centre and fought him.

“Mwamburi is frustrated - comrades expected a lot from him but things are reversed since he has not delivered to their expectations. When you read his facebook wall, even his diehard campaigners are now working against him” he said. He went on and said that the chair is a populist, who needs attention for everything he does.

“I am ready for a dialogue with Mwamburi as a way forward to solve our differences. In the morning we conversed with him over the phone for more than twenty minutes. In SDA, we do not believe in judgment from any other authority but God, and since Mwamburi and I belong to this church, we can still come up with amicable solution for the situation”, he said.

In a separate interview on Sunday, Mwamburi said that Mairura joined them when he was conversing with Major Kiplagat and called him a ‘useless mtumishi’. He then cautioned him to keep off their discussion since they have never come to an agreement on such debates but Mairura ignored him.

Mwamburi believes that their differences are much far from ideology and terms it personal hatred enshrined in a political battle for political supremacy.

‘He doesn’t accept the fact that I won Muso elections and is always out to outshine the 25^th SGC in all aspects. As much as he is championing for a dialogue between us, I am not for that, let the rule-of-law takes it course’, Mwamburi said.

The enraged two recorded their statements with the security officers and are yet to receive communication from the department.