Kenya: Speaker Muturi Fails to Deliver Hyped ‘Snow Melting’ Event

He blatantly faulted the handshake between President Uhuru Kenyatta and Opposition Leader Raila Odinga saying a coalition between a reigning government and opposition has never worked anywhere in the world.

The House Speaker accused his political opponents of hopping from one party to another not for the benefit of Kenyans or because they share similar political ideologies but for their own political mileage.

“Show me anywhere in the world in a functional democracy where a sitting government decides to join forces with the opposition to form another government with complete disregard to their own? Like it happened in Botswana some years back and you know what the results were. These are the political bad manners that I am talking about. We must stand for something and not just the pursuit of power,” said Muturi.

Key among interventions Muturi proposed is to tame government’s appetite for locally-sourced debt. This, he said, will encourage banks to led to the general public instead.

Other promises include, adequate funding to counties to ensure employment of adequate medics and a masterplan on mental health in Kenya by declaring it a threat to national development.

Muturi pledged to establish a national neuropsychiatric institute if elected President to address the mental health crisis facing the country.

“The Democratic Party of Kenya Government will declare the state of mental health in Kenya as a major threat to National development that ought to be declared a national emergency,” he declared.