Edwin Sifuna, the Nairobi Senator has revealed why he and other Azimio leaders use sufurias during anti-government protests.
Sifuna, in an interview with Citizen TV on Thursday, said he was given the sufuria by a woman in Kibra to symbolise the high cost of living.
"When I went to Kibra I met this mama and she told me, Sifuna I want you to take this sufuria because I no longer have use for it," he said.
"I have no food to cook, it is wasting space in my house. And she told me because you are fighting for me wacha nikufunike hii jua kijana yangu na hii sufuria. Haina kazi ingine. Wewe jifunike nayo."
(Let me cover you from the hot sun with my sufuria because you are fighting for me and I have no food, so the sufuria can't help me in anymore, it's useless for now.)
Sifuna was responding to South Mugirango MP Sylvanus Osoro who questioned why a polished lawyer and senator of his caliber should be putting a sufuria on his head in the streets of Nairobi.
During the protests, Sifuna was captured putting on a sufuria on his head
The Senator said many of the people he represents in Nairobi have no food to eat but those with plenty cannot understand the symbolism he was trying to demonstrate.
"I am a representative of the poor and when my appearance is grotesque and incomprehensible to you, that woman who gave me that sufuria understands what I was doing as her representative," Sifuna told Osoro.
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