MIGUNA was BROKE and even BEGGED me for MONEY-Raila

The Kenyan DAILY POSTNews02:40

Sunday July 29, 2012-Prime Minister Raila Odinga has broken his long silence on Miguna Miguna’s book, saying his former aide begged him for money after he was sacked from his office.

Speaking to our journalists on Saturday, the Premier narrated how after Miguna’s sacking, Media Mogul Patrick Quarcoo pleaded with him to reinstate is former adviser on “humanitarian grounds”

“Quarcoo said that he (Mr Miguna) was in bad shape. That he needed to pay school fees. We agreed that he returns to work but he refused and started talking about writing a book, that is when NSIS and my competitors exploited him,” the PM said.

Raila said by that time, Mr Miguna was surviving on income from writing a weekly column in the star newspaper but Mr Quarcoo told him the money had become too little.

“It is telling that a man who came crying that he could not pay his children’s school fees now can afford a holiday in Canada,” Raila said.

Raila said the book had presented an opportunity for some of his opponents to cleanse themselves.

“You will notice that the language has changed about some of my opponents. Those who Miguna previously called demons are presented as angels in the book,”

The PM said the forces behind the book were same people, saying;

“Let us not dwell on the past because the past shows the dark era of political assassination, repression, ethnic discrimination, Goldenberg, Nyayo House torture chambers, suppression of media and the assassination of J.M.Kariuki and Pio Gama Pinto and Raila in Kamiti”\

The Kenyan DAILY POST