By NATION TEAM newsdesk@ke.natuionmedia.com
Posted Sunday, March 25 2012 at 22:30
Posted Sunday, March 25 2012 at 22:30
Last week’s Gema meeting in Limuru has elicited mixed reactions with a Cabinet minister accusing central Kenyan leaders of promoting tribalism.
Kenya is a multi-party democracy and not a multi-ethnic cocoon, according to Immigration minister Otieno Kajwang’ who on Sunday dismissed the meeting that endorsed Mr Uhuru Kenyatta as President Kibaki’s successor.
“Let Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and my colleague Kiraitu Murungi stop dragging Kenya back to the dark old days of ethnicity by organising tribal meetings,” he said in Homa Bay.
He told the leaders to stop dreaming of ascending to the country’s leadership through such a scheme.
Mumias MP Benjamin Washiali and Khwisero parliamentary aspirant Joel Indakwa also hit out the Gema leaders and urged to them unite all Kenyans.
However, Eldoret North MP William Ruto supported the move, saying the Constitution allowed for freedom of association.
Speaking at Faith Evangelical Centre in Karen, Nairobi, on Sunday, Mr Ruto also supported the Gema resolution to collect two million signatures to petition ICC to postpone the Ocampo Four’s trial.
“They can look for two or three million signatures to carry out the petition since it’s enshrined in the new Constitution for people to express their views,”
At the same time, Nakuru Town MP Lee Kinyanjui and his Naivasha counterpart John Mututho said they would not be cowed by ICC indictment in backing Mr Kenyatta’s presidential bid.
Mr Mututho said Mr Kenyatta was a “formidable force and no amount of intimidation would stop him from succeeding President Kibaki.”
Mr Mututho accused ICC for failing to interview him on the 2007/08 post-election violence in Naivasha.
Reported by Peter Ng’etich, John Shilitsa Maurice Kaluoch and Simon Siele
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