Ruto bipartisan team pleads with Azimio to return to negotiating table as demonstrations resume
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Ruto bipartisan team calls on their counterparts in Azimio to return to negotiating table as demonstrations resume
Ruto bipartisan team calls on their counterparts in Azimio to return to negotiating table as demonstrations resume.
Kenya Kwanza team in the bipartisan committee now wants Azimio to choose between dialogue or street demonstrations.
Addressing a press on Tuesday, the committee co-chair George Muragura said the two activities cannot happen at the same time.
“If they insist on demonstrations as we talk then that defeats the purpose. As talks go on, they must suspend the demonstrations,” Murugara said at a press conference at Parliament Buildings on Tuesday.
“There cannot be dialogue simultaneous with street protests. The two cannot go together. Either we talk or they demonstrate.”
The Tharaka MP said his side is willing and ready to bend further for the sake of the country even as he called on Azimio to reconsider their position and return to the negotiation table.
“We are open to bending over and over again. There is no issue that is greater than this country,” he said.
Kakamega Senator Boni Khalwale called on Azimio boss Raila Odinga to give his negotiators a free hand to dialogue for the sake of the country.
“I want to appeal to him for the sake of peace that he should allow his committee to talk to us,” Khalwale said.
The two were accompanied by the Kenya Kwanza team in the bipartisan talks committee.
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Ruto team plea comes as Azimio la Umoja, resumed protests on Tuesday, May 2, with supporters and police engaged in a running battle across the country.
Opposition leaders, led by former Prime Minister, Raila Odinga, are yet to surface to lead the protests, despite announcing that they would hit the road running at 6 am.
Raila Odinga had indicated that Tuesday’s protests will begin at 6 am, even as police outlawed the demonstrations citing possible violence. He also outlined a programme that will begin at Nairobi’s Central Park and head into the city centre.
Speaking in Nairobi on Labour Day, Mr. Odinga told President William Ruto and the general public that the protests would be peaceful and that no property would be destroyed.
“Our demonstrators have been informed that tomorrow’s protests will be peaceful. No one will carry any weapons,” he said.
Raila said they will present petitions at IEBC offices, the National Treasury, and the Office of the President in the Nairobi CBD.
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