MP Didmus Barasa Denies Child Abuse Claims, Says Girl in Viral Video is His Daughter

Kimilili MP Didmus Barasa has dismissed claims of child abuse and sexual assault.

This comes after a video clip featuring the first-time MP and a young girl went viral, raising eyebrows among social media users.

The clip shows Barasa and the girl seated at a restaurant, with the minor helping him to sip a drink from a glass. She then wipes off some dripping drink from Barasa’s lips using tissue and continues to ‘feed’ him.

After the clip emerged online, a concerned woman filed a report at Akilla Police Station in Nairobi. 

“There is a video that is doing rounds in social media that is involving the young girl of about 14-13 years old and evidently from that video, the child is being coerced by a senior public officer in this country to feed him with alcohol and also forcing the child to take something like busaa,” the lady said in a recording.

She added: “Members of the public are concerned about the action of this particular Mheshimiwa and it is a bad example. Really, that is a teenager and even if she is his daughter, I am not happy with the demeanor, the place they are seated, and the child being forced to feed a whole big man with a jug of alcohol.”

Responding to the allegations, Barasa said the girl in the clip is his only daughter, adding that they spend much time together. 

“That is my firstborn daughter Chelsea Naliaka Didmus,” Barasa told TV47.

He termed the woman who filed a report with the police as “a busy body who deserves no audience from me.”