Kalonzo's Wiper expels deputy party leader Farah Maalim over distasteful remarks

Wiper Democratic Movement party leader Kalonzo Musyoka has announced the immediate expulsion of Dadaab Member of Parliament Farah Maalim from the opposition political outfit following his recent remarks.

Kalonzo, speaking during a press conference on Wednesday, expressed concern over the conduct of the controversial lawmaker, who has been serving as the Wiper deputy party leader.

"Hon. Farah Maalim stands expelled as the Deputy Party Leader of Wiper for violating the rights of Kenyans,” Kalonzo stated at the presser.

“He used to be a reformist and I campaigned for him in Dadaab…it’s heavy on my heart that he can say such utterances," the Wiper leader added, further calling for the resignation of President William Ruto over the recent wave of abductions.

Maalim, a recent staunch supporter of President William Ruto, was last week condemned after he used expletives and unprintable adjectives towards the youthful Gen Zs who criticize the government online.

"When you see everything progressing and then some fools say ‘Kasongo Ruto must go.’ To hell with those who say that! Is he sitting in your mother’s or father’s seat? He is sitting in our seat, and we will re-elect him; we will deliver 99% or even 100%. We are saying Ruto will stay until 2032," Maalim stated, adding unprintable insults directed towards youthful Kenyans.

Almost six months ago, at the height of the Gen Z protests, the Daadab MP was trending on local news channels for all the wrong reasons again.

Speaking in his local Somali dialect, the lawmaker was quoted saying if he was Kenya’s supremo, he would have clamped down ruthlessly on the youthful demonstrators and could “even have killed 5,000 of them daily.”

"This was an attempted coup, a clear attempted coup. Children of wealthy business owners, wealthy parents and kids raised on ill-gotten wealth, 80% from one tribe were dropped off in downtown and told to riot and take over State House and Parliament buildings," he said in July last year.

"God forbid if I was president I would have slaughtered them, 5,000 of them daily. Serious, there is no two ways about it."

The public was aghast with his level of callousness and many even wondered if this was the cool rational MP who had always kept to Kalonzo’s diplomatic side in the Wiper party.

Maalim was a few days later ejected from the Sarova Whitesands Beach Resort in Mombasa where he was staying then, following the controversial remarks that were captured in a then-viral video that sparked online outrage.

Utterly irked by his remarks, Wiper took a decision to de-whip him from all committees in Parliament, with the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) even recommending his removal.

He was subsequently summoned by the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) and ordered to record a statement on the same. 

According to NCIC, the MP’s remarks were likely to incite hostility and discrimination: "The utterances are likely to incite feelings of contempt, hatred, hostility, violence or discrimination, and affect harmonious coexistence between groups of different political affiliations in Kenya, contrary to Section 13 (1) (a) of the NCI Act.”