The politicians gathered for the mass burial of five family members who died in a road accident at Kwangolia area on Wote-Machakos road on September 12.
Trouble started when Kangema MP Muturi Kigano, a member of Kieleweke which supports the handshake between President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga, stood to address the mourners.
Murang’a Woman Representative Sabina Chege and Senate Chief Whip Irungu Kang’ata — both of Kieleweke — tried in vain to restore calm.
Differences among supporters of Jubilee Party’s Tangatanga and Kieleweke factions degenerated into kicks and blows at a funeral ceremony in Murang’a County on Friday.
Politicians and members of the public had gathered for the mass burial of five family members - a man and his wife, their child and a nephew and the man’s sister - who died in a road accident at Kwangolia area on Wote-Machakos road on September 12.
