Prime Minister Raila Odinga greets Jackson Kibo during a meeting with Kalenjin community elders drawn from North Rift Counties held at Kenmosa village in Eldoret Town November 5.Photo/File
ODM has dismissed as ''unfortunate'' claims by Eldoret North MP William Ruto that Prime Minister Raila Odinga met fake Kalenjin elders on Monday.
Secretary general Anyang Nyongo said: ''It's unfortunate that the URP leadership has denounced the Kalenjin leaders who met the PM in Eldoret as crooks, conmen and worthless.''
"We met professionals, elders, youth leaders, women leaders and businessmen who are highly respected in the North Rift. I do not understand how Ambassador Tabitha Seii, Musa Ewoii, Kipkorir Arap Menjo, Kipkorir Kipchumba, Mzee Kibor, Said Kaitany, Hon John Sambu, the Laibons and many others can be dismissed as conmen and crooks. But maybe the URP mandarins have exemplary standards by which they judge community leaders," Nyongo added in a statement.
ODM also defended its self regarding the ICC, saying it has always called for the referral of the cases to credible courts in Kenya.
"We opposed the deferral of these cases since this would have amounted to a simple postponement of the cases and not dealing with them. Hon. Uhuru Kenyatta is therefore misleading Kenyans."
On Tuesday, Ruto declared Raila a ''political conman'' over the PM’s assertion to elders that he can help return the ICC cases to Kenya.
He accused Raila of engaging in political expedience over the ICC question even after blocking attempts to defer the case and ODM dismissing shuttle diplomacy by Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka as a waste of state resources.
“He wants to create or make stories that if elected, he is the only one who can lobby for deferral. The Prime Minister needs to be a honest person and should know that what he is engaging in is political conmanship. He goes and cheats some old men that he wants the case back,” said Ruto.
“The PM needs to be informed that there is a shortage of foolish people in Kenya he can cheat; you can fool some people sometimes but you cannot fool all people all the time,” he told journalists yesterday.
However yesterday, Nyongo said his letter to the UN stated quite clearly that any presentation of the Kenyan case to the UN had to get the input of the whole coalition government, and not a faction of it. "The PNU wing of government did not consult us when it engaged in the so-called shuttle diplomacy."
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