Narc-Kenya boss Martha Karua was warmly received in Kisumu at the weekend when she toured the lakeside town for a series of political meetings. The Gichugu MP visited Nyalenda estate where she opened a Narc-Kenya Kisumu County office before later addressing a public rally at Kondele grounds after meeting her party members and delegates at Jumuia centre.
Accompanied by the party’s Kamukunji constituency parliamentary aspirant Brian Weke, Karua who has for the last one week crisscrossed the province, opening party offices and selling her policies maintained that Kenya enjoys democracy and no individual should be barred from campaigning anywhere.
She differed with a section of MPs criticizing President Kibaki and PM Raila Odinga for hoodwinking them to endorse the new constitution with pretext that they would not pay tax saying section 210 clearly states that no individual would be excluded from payment of tax.
She said the MPs ought to have read the constitution themselves rather than blame the two principals for deceiving them to endorse it at the referendum only to be told later to pay tax. “If you can pay tax, then why should the rich legislators not do so?” she posed.
She maintained the public should push their legislators to pay their tax arrears as required by the new constitution.“You are their employers and they can listen to you better because you have what it takes to send them home, be vigilant and have them pay tax,” she added.
Weke hinted at a possibility of Narc-Kenya working with ODM after the next General Election. “When you see us here know that we are one and are pursuing the same agenda ,” he said.
Without mentioning ODM, he said: “Our party (Narc-Kenya) is ready to work with the popular party in this region to propel the economy of this country after the polls.”
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