Machakos governor Alfred Mutua wants Azimio leader Raila Odinga probed over the use of the vijana fire phrase.
Mutua wants the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) to probe Odinga over what he says is incitement to violence.
Mutua argues that the phrase can be used to incite violence among youths during the August polls.
“When a leader tells hungry, jobless, suffering and easy to manipulate youth, “Vijana Fire”, what message is he sending them?”
“You only fire after taking aim and then pressing the trigger to shoot a fellow Kenyan,” Mutua posed in a Facebook post.
“We call upon NCIC to investigate Hon. Raila Odinga and Azimio for incitement to violence,” he said.
The Machakos governor claimed that election violence starts with such utterances and programming.
“Telling youth fire is incitement and tantamount to hate speech and priming youth to violence,”
Raila has been using the clarion slogan in his campaigns to woo youths into voting for him in the coming August polls.
The Azimio leader has been calling on his supporters to their voters and identification cards ready for the August polls.
He has however clarified that the phrase translates to calling out young people to vote for him.