Raila reads mischief
Raila Odinga, the leader of the opposition, has charged that the government “managed the Shakahola massacre.”
According to Mr. Odinga, the head of the Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition, when he recently tried to travel to Shakahola, Kilifi County, to witness the exhumation of the bodies of Paul Mackenzie’s followers, “the security officers chased me out saying they did not want witnesses,” he was turned away.
“This government is concealing something. In Gitui, Murang’a County, at the Anglican Church of Kenya, he said that “an topic of such public interest deserves transparency.
He attended the burial service for 82-year-old Mary Nyambura Cyrus, who was the mother of Ms Jane Waigwe, the wife of former Murang’a governor Mr Mwangi wa Iria.
Raila reads mischief
Mr Odinga further said the government needs to be called out for the “habit of chest thumping and forcing things”.
“Why would the government force this on them?” he asked, using the example of the three percent housing tax. “If an employee has their own home, does not need one, or can afford their own arrangements to own one.”
He further criticized Kenya Kwanza government’s Finance Bill, 202, and charged President William Ruto’s administration with tribalism in regards to issues like State jobs.
Personally, I am unable to support tribalism. I support nationalism, he informed the mourning.
The Azimio boss went on to dismiss the Kenya Kwanza government as an enemy of the hustler nation and democracy owing to a “crashing” taxation regime and the alleged buying off of opposition leaders.
He isn’t even offering advice. He is proposing taxes that are a crushing burden to the really underprivileged people on whose shoulders he ran his campaign, the man claimed.
When he asserted that the government intended to prevent opposition leaders from attending freedom fighter Mukami Kimathi’s burial in Nyandarua County on Saturday, Mr. Kamau Mweha, Mr. Odinga’s pointman for the Mt. Kenya region, infuriated the mourners.
Mr. Mweha provided no supporting data for his assertions.
We’ll go to the funeral, he said.