Several Western Kenya lawmakers, allied to Deputy President William Ruto, have lashed out at leaders who met Kanu Chair Gideon Moi in Kabarak last week.
Team handshake led by Governo Wycliffe Oparanya, Devolution Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa, and Cotu Secretary-General Francis Atwoli and other Western leaders visited Mr. Moi where they talked about the 2022 polls.
Of late the Baringo Senator has been seen preparing his soldiers and intensifying his grassroots support in Western Kenya ahead of the next general elections.
Hitting back at the meeting, eight Tangatanga MPs, including Mumias East’s Benjamin Washiali, said the team that visited Gideon Moi embarrassed the Mulembe Nation.
“Our brothers have ridiculed and ashamed our community by carrying a delegation to Moi to unveil a portrait without having an agenda for our people. What does that mean?” Washiali posed.
According to Washiali, the leaders did not ask for permission before going to drum up support for Gideon Moi’s 2022 presidential ambitions noting that the region was planning to be part of the next government in alliances with like-minded individuals.
“If it’s a portrait they wanted to show Gideon, they should have taken him to Uhuru Park and showed him the portraits of his late father. Some of these leaders are a big joke. They are telling us they want to enter the government, two years to the polls, yet we are making plans to form the next government,” he added.
Earlier yesterday, Governor Oparanya said their meeting with Gideon Moi who is a presidential hopeful come 2022 did not amount to his endorsement.
Mr. Washiali added that everybody knows that handshake has been beneficial since it has brought peace but politicians have gone to the extreme and they are using it to undermine the Constitution.
“If you go to Parliament, committee seats are occupied by people supposed to be in the opposition, who are presiding over impunity at the expense of millions of Kenyans,” he said, adding there is nobody to keep the government in check.
“We are appealing to Uhuru … if this is what the handshake is all about, it will undermine what he swore to protect,” he said.
According to him, the deal between the President and ODM leader Raila Odinga has escalated the war on graft but corrupt individuals are hiding behind handshake while they steal from the public.
Bumula MP Mwambu Mabonga accused CS Wamalwa of auctioning Western region using the handshake.
Mr. Mwambu further voiced his support for Deputy President William Ruto saying the Deputy President has visited them but they have never seen Moi or Raila doing any tangible thing to the region.
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CS Wamalwa said their tour to Moi’s home was focused on development projects for the sake of their better living for Western residents.
MP Mwambu and his group’s outburst must have come as a surprise for criticizing Wamalwa’s group for visiting Gideon Moi since the person they purport to support – Dr. William Ruto has been holding meeting leaders from all regions across the country and they haven’t complained about it at all.
It is sound funny for them to complain or raise an issue with any leader visiting others as they strategize for the 2022 general elections, it is a music of their own creation they should let everyone now dance to the tune without discrimination.
