Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Uhuru hits out at Raila over reforms claim


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PHOTO | FILE Jubilee presidential hopeful Uhuru Kenyatta addresses his supporters ay Nyamarambe area in Kisii on January 6, 2012.
PHOTO | FILE Jubilee presidential hopeful Uhuru Kenyatta addresses his supporters ay Nyamarambe area in Kisii on January 6, 2012.  NATION MEDIA GROUP
By JACKLINE MORAA newsdesk@ke.nationmedia.com
Posted  Tuesday, January 8  2013 at  00:30
IN SUMMARY
  • Presidential hopeful dismisses allegation Jubilee leaders are non-reformers and explains their role
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Presidential hopeful Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday continued with his tour of Kisii County, and criticised Prime Minister Raila Odinga for branding Jubilee alliance leaders non-reformers.
Mr Kenyatta said all Kenyans were reformers since the achievement of the new Constitution.
“Reforms are not owned by an individual. All of us are reformers, and we have a responsibility of implementing the Constitution,” he told a rally in Ogembo Town.
He said Jubilee leaders were also in the government that brought reforms including free education, Constituency Development Fund and Economic Stimulus Programme.
He asked their rivals in Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (Cord) not to use the Constitution as their campaign tool because it was passed by all Kenyans.
“The Constitution is not an individual property, all Kenyans participated in one way or another in passing it. Mr Odinga should tell us what his policies are,” he said.
The next polls, he said, were not about reformers and non-reformers but issues and numbers.
NATIONAL AGENDA
  • ISSUE 1 - Job Creation
  • ISSUE 2 -Food Security
  • ISSUE 3 - Healthcare
  • ISSUE 4 - Education
  • ISSUE 5 - Energy
  • ISSUE 6 - Water & Environment
  • ISSUE 7 - Social Protection
  • ISSUE 8 - Public Infrastructure
  • ISSUE 9 - National Security & Foreign Policy
  • ISSUE 10 - Boosting Exports
  • ISSUE 11 - Devolution
  • ISSUE 12 - Ethnicity
Mr Odinga’s step brother, Mr Omondi Oginga, found himself on the wrong side when he asked the crowd to shout loud enough “to scare ODM out of Gusii region”.
He had been invited by United Republican Party leader William Ruto to address the crowd but as soon as he started mentioning Mr Odinga’s name, he was heckled and had to cut short his address.
Mr Ruto said the difference between Jubilee and Cord was like night and day.
“Our vision, policies and the marshal plans we have put in place to make the country move forward are totally different from Cord coalition’s,” he said.
He said Kenyan politics had changed and hatred and election violence should be shunned. He challenged the Cord coalition to come up with policies that would address the plight of farmers and women instead of engaging in hate speech and mudslinging.
The two leaders said the polls would be free and fair and that no violence would be witnessed.
They were accompanied by Foreign Affairs minister Sam Ongeri, eight MPs and several former MPs from Gusii region.

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