How Raila is plotting to stage a coup in Mt Kenya against Ruto
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Raila and his Azimio camp plotting to turn table against Ruto in the Mt Kenya region using current challenges facing the country
Raila and his Azimio camp plotting to turn table against Ruto in the Mt Kenya region using current challenges facing the country.
Azimio leader Raila Odinga is facing an uphill task to win the heart and soul of the vote-rich Mt Kenya region.
Raila never mounted a campaign in Mount Kenya before the general election on August 9, 2022, and he never won more than 10% of the vote there.
However, Raila received roughly 20% of the vote in the area in his fifth attempt to win the top job in the country.
The rise was mostly attributable to his then-running mate Martha Karua, who influenced some hesitant voters, particularly those who wanted to elect the nation’s first female deputy president.
However, President William Ruto, who trounced Raila in the polls, spared no effort to win over the Mt Kenya vote.
The former prime minister this week joined his Azimio brigade in accusing the government of focusing on and profiling young people from the Mt. Kenya region, in a move regarded as one of his attempts to maintain his influence in the region.
Speaking to the media on Monday, June 5, at the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Foundation, the Azimio leaders criticized the government’s announcements regarding the resurgence of the illegal criminal organization Mungiki and its campaign against alcoholism as a scheme to unfairly target young people from Central Kenya.
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Raila further observed that the recent arrest of former Mungiki leader Maina Njenga was politically motivated.
While singling out the deputy president, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party leader challenged the government to focus on creating jobs for the youth instead of labeling them as drunkards and members of outlawed criminal groups.
“There is now an attempt to artificially recreate, and re-establish the Mungiki movement and I have seen it happen with my own eyes. Maina Njenga has since been vilified and harassed, they have carried out searches in his residences, planting some kind of evidence to try to vilify him and find an excuse to arrest him and detain him,” said Raila.
Karua, the NARC-Kenya party leader claimed the government’s claim on Mungiki resurgence is just an attempt to justify violence on Mt. Kenya youth.
On the other hand, former Murang’a governor Mwangi Wa Iria suggested that the Ruto-led Kenya Kwanza government took advantage of the youth to ascend to power only to turn against them months later.
On his part, former Laikipia governor Nderitu Mureithi claimed there was ill intention in the alleged pronouncement on the resurgence of Mungiki.
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