Rowdy youths blocked Baringo Senator Gideon Moi from attending a dawn meeting with Talai elders in Nandi on Saturday.
Hundreds of youth blocked roads leading to Kapsisiywa where the meeting was to be held. The elders were to bless Gideon amid intensifying rivalry between him and Deputy President William Ruto over control of the Kalenjin community ahead of the 2022 elections.
Last year, the same elders met DP Ruto and blessed him as the Kalenjin spokesman and leader.
After arriving in the area at about 4am in a convoy of more than four cars, Gideon and his team encountered the rowdy youths who said they would not allow him to pass because the community blessings had already been given to Ruto.
According to Gideon's spokesman Alex Kiprotich,the elders led by Christopher Koyogi, who has been criticizing Ruto lately, invited the senator.
“Gideon Moi was invited for blessings by Nandi elders while on his meet the people tour in the area. But as he headed to the venue where the elders were waiting he came across rowdy youth who blocked him. He however continued with the tour where he interacted with the locals”, said Kiprotich.
Gideon tried to calm the rowdy youths down and told that he had the right to visit the region like any other Kenyan.
Although he later had an opportunity to meet with a section of the elders, it is still unclear whether the blessings ceremony took place.
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