Karungo was pointed and deliberate in how he framed the allegation. He said that as things stand, UDA Members of Parliament from the Mt Kenya region are being organised to hold press conferences in which they will castigate their own people.
The script, he said, is becoming clearer by the day, a calculated effort to use Mt Kenya's own elected representatives to paint the community as troublemakers, agitators, or enemies of the state in the aftermath of the fuel price protests that have swept across the region and beyond.
The allegation is explosive because of what it implies. If true, it means the government is not simply responding to protests but is actively working to delegitimise and criminalise the communities behind them by weaponising their own leaders against them.
Getting an MP to stand before cameras and condemn his own constituents carries a very different weight than the government speaking for itself.
Karungo's warning comes at a moment when figures like Moses Kuria have already been raising concerns about Mt Kenya being singled out for the destruction witnessed during the protests.
The pattern he is describing, of community leaders being turned against their own people through political pressure, is one that has deep and painful historical roots in Kenyan politics.
He is urging people to watch closely and connect the dots before the script is fully played out.
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