Kalonzo, Wetangula Soon Joining Jubilee, As CORD Ship Sink Further.
Speaking at ACK Kinorero Church in Kangema, Murang’a County, Kigumo MP
Jamleck Kamau said that there were all indications that the two CORD principals
were on the way to the ‘winning team’ and it was just a matter of time before
they made the grand announcement.
“What I know is that very soon we will be receiving Kalonzo Musyoka and one
Moses Wetangula on our side. These two have realised that Raila will not step
aside for anyone of them and we have no doubt they are coming to us. Kenyans are
about to see the whole country rallying behind the president,” said Jamleck.
The legislator, who has already declared his intent to vie for the Murang’a
gubernatorial seat, said that majority of those in the opposition have realised
that theirs was a sinking ship and were only weighing their options before they
shifted to other political outfits. He dismissed as empty threats those going
round claiming that those who had officially announced their defection to JP
would have to seek fresh mandate through by-elections arguing that there were
no possibilities for such scenario as time had ran out for any by-election at
this time.
“I don’t really think that anybody worth his salt will really have to
worry about those people. The talk of by-elections is immaterial at this moment
as we are now heading to the next General Elections which makes it totally
impossible to hold any by-election. Hivyo ni vitisho baridi. They have realised
that things are getting ‘elephant’ and are now getting scared of a resounding
defeat come August 2017,” said the Kigumo MP.
Kamau also sought for a public apology from CORD leader Raila Odinga for
disrespecting the presidency during his rally in Mombasa on Saturday. He argued
that it was quite unfortunate for the CORD leader to stand on the podium and
hurl insults to the head of state.
“Unfortunately, when the president was busy trying to unite Kenyans in Kasarani,
some other people were in Mombasa hurling all kinds of abuse to His Excellency
the president and Jubilee in general. I think that it is time people realised
that insults will never move the country forward. Those are outdated politics. We
are past that now and we are demanding that the former Prime Minister Raila
Odinga do apologised to Kenyans for insulting their president. For those who don’t
understand how violence start, it is because of such kinds of reckless
utterances,” he said.
He dismissed CORD’s argument that the Jubilee government had done nothing
to the people of Kenya, saying that Kenyans only needed to flashback to where
the country was in 2013 to appreciate the great strides the country had taken
towards meaningful development. The MP said that majority of the projects that
the Jubilee Government had pledged to fulfil in their first term in office were
now complete and those that were not yet complete were into their final stages
of development.
On local politics, Kamau lamented of the numerous challenges that Murang’a
County residents were currently facing due to poor leadership. Claiming to be a
student of the Late powerful Minister John Njoroge Michuki who was a very visionary leader, Kamau said that his government
would strive to correct the errors that were being made through misplaced
priorities. He said that he had great plans for Murang’a County as envisioned
in his soon to be released manifesto.
“Jamuu ako na jibu ya Murang’a. It is the high
time we changed the way things are done and made the government be felt at the
lowest cadre of the people of Murang’a.”
The MP also promised to pursue justice for the
two journalists that were attacked by Kakuzi guards in their course of duty
saying that he would do everything possible to see to it that the culprits were
brought to book and made accountable for their deeds.
“The 4th Estate must be let to
execute their mandate unhindered. I personally castigate that cowardly act by
the Kakuzi guards. We are demanding for an immediate action by the relevant authorities.
The perpetrators of this heinous act must be made to account for their crime
through our judicial system. There are no investigations needed considering
that the clip shows clearly those who attacked Mburu and Kariithi. These people
should be in court now answering charges of assault and destruction of
property,” said Kamau.
James Mburu Gaita (NTV) and Julius Kariithi Munene (Inooro FM/Radio
Citizen) were attacked and severely injured while covering a students’/parents’
demonstration against an alleged encroachment of Gititu Secondary School land
by Kakuzi Company Ltd. Their cameras and recording equipment too were destroyed
in the melee.
The two scribes found themselves on the wrong side of the
guards after one of them noticed the se reporters taking a video shoot of the guards
beating up the students who were pulling down the barbed-wire fence that the
company authorities had erected within what was presumed to be school land.
As soon as word went round that the guards were on record
attacking the students, they immediately pounced on the scribes, hitting them
with jembe sticks indiscriminately and smashing their recorders probably to ‘kill
the evidence’ for good.
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