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Africa-Press – Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>Narc Kenya leader Martha Karua has fired back at Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua accusing him of profiling Azimio leaders.<\/p>\n

It followed remarks by the DP on Wednesday that Karua’s association with the Azimio bandwagon who put sufurias on their heads during protests was embarrassing the Mt Kenya region.<\/p>\n

Gachagua in particular singled out Roots Party leader George Wajackoyah whom he said had influenced Karua into the ’embarrassing’ behaviour.<\/p>\n

“Hii mambo ya kuvaa sufuria kwa kichwa inatuabisha. Huyu mama hata nitamtafuta, najua ni rafiki yangu hata tunajuana, nitamuongelesha,” he said on Wednesday during the launch of affordable housing project in Gichugu, Kirinyaga county.<\/p>\n

“Kwanza nimwambie, hii sufuria ambayo anavaa kwa kichwa ni kwa sababu ya kutembea na hii mtu anaitwa Wajackoyah.”<\/p>\n

Karua, however, said no one in government can choose friends for Azimio leaders.<\/p>\n

“They have profiled Azimio, now they are profiling individual leaders that is why they will say ‘don’t walk with Wajackoyah, don’t walk with Maina Njenga’. I want to tell them, you cannot choose friends for me.”<\/p>\n

The Narc Kenya leader said if there are people she is not going to walk with, it’s the likes of those profiling others.<\/p>\n

“Watu wa Azimio ni sawa, I will walk with them and I will fight for the rights of Kenyans with them,” she said.<\/p>\n

Karua was speaking on Friday at the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga park in Bondo town during the interdenominational prayer service for protesters who died during the last round of Azimio protests in July.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the same event, Wajackoyah equally fired a salvo at Gachagua saying the DP should leave Karua alone.<\/p>\n

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