Stop verbal attacks against Odingas and Luo community- The family warns
Odinga family warns the government (Ruto and his deputy) to stop verbal attacks against their family and Luo community
Odinga family warns the government (Ruto and his deputy) to stop verbal attacks against their family and Luo community.
The head of the Odinga family, Oburu Odinga, has stated that the family is concerned about President William Ruto and his deputy, Rigathi Gachagua’s fixation with the Odingas.
Oburu claimed that the Presidency’s ongoing verbal attacks on Azimio leader Raila Odinga have been reduced to a personal feud.
“My brother Raila is the Azimio leader. I am quite disturbed, as the head of the Odinga family, that the person who is the President and who holds the instruments of power and force, heading the army and the armed forces of Kenya can threaten Raila to a personal duel,” he said.
Speaking at the Moi International Airport in Mombasa on Saturday, Oburu said the issues that Raila is fighting for on behalf of Kenyans are not personal between him and President Ruto.
“Whether he went in legally or illegally, he is the President holding the instruments of power. When Raila is demonstrating in accordance with the constitution of Kenya which he fought for it is not a personal issue,” said the Siaya Senator.
Raila has called for weekly demonstration against the giovernment over high cost of living among other issues.
However, Ruto accusses Raila of fighting for personal gain, a matter Oburu has denied.
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“It is a matter of concern that a president who will not go out to the demonstrations invites an individual Kenyan, who has no arms, who has not been any given power to hold any arms, who comes out with his hands and you throw teargas bought by taxpayers, and you call that a personal duel. How can that be a personal duel?” Oburu questioned.
He called on Gachagua to respect every community and stop labelling some stone throwers.
“The Luo community respects you and has never called you names. But you keep on calling the community derogatory names. You must stop this and realize we are not in a campaign period anymore,” Oburu told Gachagua.
The government, he said, must protect Raila and other members of the Odinga family as any other Kenyans must be protected.
He said the Odinga’s are taxpayers too and constant bashing only exposes them to predatory Kenyans who are only looking for some trigger to harm others.
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