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Deputy Prime Minister and Jubilee Coalition's Presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta has critically attacked the Prime Minister Raila Odinga for the latter's role in the 2007 post-election violence. Uhuru claims Raila did not react to curb the chaos and waited until he was guaranteed a position in the coalition government. "If Raila was a peace loving leader he could have stopped the 2007 post-election violence but only chose to plead for calm after he had been given half a loaf (included in government), meaning he was interested in acquiring power,” said Uhuru.
The DPM was addressing a series of rallies in Manga, Nyamaiya, Magwagwa, Rigoma, Nyansiongo and Nyamira town in Nyamira County this Monday. Uhuru accused Raila of practising divisive politics and that he failed to unite Kenyans when the bloody post-election violence was a reality.
“Siasa yake ya vitendawili haiwezi kuweka ugali katika meza ya mwananchi wa kawaida (His politics of riddles cannot put food on a common man’s dinner table),” he said.
He added: “I don’t oppose him because of his ethnicity. In 2007 he was a key leader in the conflict but there is no single day he opened his mouth to castigate the violence until when he was granted his half-bread government.” He said Raila could not be trusted with the country’s leadership because he failed to hold his ODM pentagon together.
“Everybody has rebelled against him; it shows there is a problem somewhere. He lacks leadership quality, a factor which has resulted to his key Pentagon allies such as William Ruto, Charity Ngilu, Joseph Nyagah and Najib Balala deserting him.”
Uhuru was accompanied by Foreign Affairs minister Sam Ongeri, former MPs Walter Nyambati, Wilfred Ombui, Jimmy Angwenyi, Joel Onyancha, Godfrey Masanya, Joyce Laboso and several aspirants.
Further attacks on Raila were levied by Uhuru who said Raila was out to divide the country with his allegations that the Government was plotting to rig the elections in favour of Jubilee.
“Raila’s politics always confuses me. Please do not take this country back, do not divide this nation,” he said.
We at KiN are following the debates and the rallies keenly and wish Kenyans a free, fair and dignified electioneering process.
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3 comments:
This is funny, how can Raila claim that the Government plans to rig the elections when he is in the same Government? Such irresponsible statements can lead the country into chaos as were seen last time. Both Uhuru and Raila are at the top of the Government and should therefore tell Kenyans the truth of what they know!!!
That is the way Raila started in 2007 and we all remember how it all ended with bloodshed. This time hatutakubali tutumiwe.
Not this time, we have a good constitution & Hague is open line........
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