Oscar Sudi scolds Raila over new demands ‘Heri tu mrudi maandamano nyinyi’
Sudi scolds Azimio leader Raila Odinga over his new demands following a truce with President William Ruto
Sudi scolds Azimio leader Raila Odinga over his new demands following a truce with President William Ruto.
Kapseret Member of Parlament (MP) Oscar Sudi has dismissed Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya leader Raila Odinga’s new demands to President William Ruto’s administration to iron out issues raised during the coalition’s mass actions.
Sudi expressed disbelief that Raila wants discussions akin to the 2008 National Accord, which was driven by the late former United Nations Secretary-General Koffi Annan following the contentious 2007 presidential election results, in a statement posted on his official Twitter account.
The outspoken member questioned how the aforementioned concerns were connected to the 2008 National Accord while asserting that Raila was using the problems with IEBC servers and Unga prices to bargain for a discussion analogous to that agreement.
Sudi subsequently stated that the opposition members continue their protests since their demands were ‘unrealistic’.
“I am shocked to hear Raila Odinga desperately seeking talks like the 2008 National Accord using the issues of the price of Unga and opening of @IEBCKenya servers. Do these issues even relate? Heri tu mrudi Maandamano nyinyi,” Sudi wrote.
Sudi’s remarks came hours after Raila and other leaders allied to the Azimio faction held a presser to address their concerns in response to Ruto’s calls for bipartisan talks.
Ruto had proposed a bipartisan parliamentary engagement to address Raila’s concerns on the reconstitution of the IEBC.
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But while addressing a presser on Tuesday, April 4, 2023, Raila asserted that the parliamentary process proposed by the president was not an effective way of addressing the grievances aired by the opposition.
He noted that the faction preferred to have a conversation at the national level through a process similar to the 2008 National Accord.
“It is the resolution of this meeting that a purely parliamentary process may not serve the intended ends. Our suggestion is to have a conversation at the national level through a process akin to the 2008 National Accord,” Raila said.
Leaders in President Ruto’s United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party have also dismissed Odinga’s new demands, saying it is time he moved on after the August 2022 elections.
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