Mathira lawmaker says State machinery deployed to catapult Odinga to State House » Capital News

NYERI, Mar 10 – Mathira legislator Rigathi Gachagua Tuesday claimed unnamed people in government had deployed State machinery to propel former Prime Minister Raila Odinga to presidency come 2022. 

Speaking at Kiarithaini
village within his constituency during the burial of businessman Robert
Kabiru, Gachagua said Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) rallies had been turned
into platforms to advance Odinga’s political ambitions.

“These BBI rallies have been
turned into platforms for Raila campaigns. It is no longer about building
bridges but destroying them. Raila has succeeded in hijacking our agenda as the
Jubilee Party,” said Gachagua.

He cautioned residents of Mt Kenya
region will not buy the trick and will resist any attempt to force a Raila
presidency.

Gachagua said the region was only
keen on a BBI outcome which will guarantee them minimum prices on tea and
coffee.

Gachagua faulted National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi’s proposals for the abolition of the popular vote and its replacement with a party-list proportional representation system.

READ: Muturi Proposes Scrapping Of Popular Presidential Vote, Roots For Party-Based Polls

“I don’t agree with my Speaker
on his observation that we should embrace party-based polls where the party
that wins names president and his deputy. This cannot happen in Kenya where electorate
have constitutional mandate to choose who they want as their leaders,”
said Gachagua.

He also urged the government scale
up security for Deputy President William Ruto in the wake of his claims
that he is being targeted for elimination by unnamed people in government.