Dagoretti South MP John Kiarie was attacked and beaten to a pulp in a sickening plot to stop him from being in the ballot.
Speaking to Engage Talk in an emotional narration aptly titled The Scars I Carry, the former Redykyulass bigwig revealed that he was accosted by goons wielding crude weapons in a bid to stop his quest for the seat.
“Guys, I don’t have any piercing on my body, I do not know any tattoo artist and I have never been to a tattoo parlour. But I have got two tattoos on my body and I wear them boldly, proudly and foolishly.
"These are my scars of war. They are things I collected in my youth. I can show you these tattoos,” started Kiarie.
Kj, as he is popularly known, narrated that the goons were allegedly sent by his political enemies to finish him off, but he managed to hang onto life being by using his hand to shield his head before passing out.
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“When I was on the campaign trail, I was attacked by a gang of goons. Some opponents didn’t want me on the ballot paper and they sent some goons because they wanted me dead,” he narrated.
“I was really beaten to a pulp. And before I passed out, these guys who had been surrounding me all the while with these crude weapons, one of them attempted to hit my head for the umpteenth time, so I lifted my arm and the jembe stick hit my hand and it went limp. They put a metal rod in there which I removed much later,” added the MP.
That was in 2007. The other scar is from a biking accident 15 years earlier.
“When I was 15, I went for a sleepover at my best friend’s place. His dad was an American while his mom was a Luhya. I was there on Friday and on Monday morning I was in a bad accident. We had been riding bikes all morning and it had become boring. So what we did, we took a small BMX bike belonging to my friends younger sister.
“We took the handlebars, pushed them forward and downwards. We were riding it down a 50-meter descent, round a bend and all the way back up. It was good fun but a ride of death. When it was my turn while going downhill, I could tell that I had over sped. The way I knew is because the slipper I was stopping the bike with was getting very hot and tearing.
"I was almost down there and I had to make a decision. I either was going to make a corner and bang into a parked car right after the corner or go into someone’s bedroom through the window or I was just going to stop the bike by the road curb. So I went with option number three.
"I hit the curb and flew into the air. I can tell you it was a long minute but when I landed, my elbow was up here (pointing just below the shoulder)," narrated the legislator.
Here is the full video:
