By MWAKERA MWAJEFA mwajefa@ke.nationmedia.com ( email the author)
Posted Sunday, February 10 2013 at 12:31
Posted Sunday, February 10 2013 at 12:31
Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka has denied endorsing the Mombasa County governor candidate Hassan Joho.
The VP’s spokesman Kaplich Barsito dismissed reports that Mr Musyoka had supported Mr Joho's candidature for the governor seat saying his comment about him in Malindi was quoted out of context.
“The VP was just responding to what Mr Joho had said at the rally but he didn’t endorse him as the Mombasa governor and this should not be used to mean otherwise,” he told Nation on phone.
Wiper Democratic Movement (WDM) candidates and supporters reacted sharply after word went round that the VP had endorsed Mr Joho as the preferred governor within the Cord coalition.
Several Wiper candidates in Mombasa County expressed disappointment that their party leader could support a different candidate from a partner party.
Meanwhile, the Somali community living in Mombasa County is divided on whom to support between Mr Joho and Wiper's Mr Suleiman Shahbal for the governor seat.
At a press conference on Saturday, a section of the community protested a planned meeting with Mr Joho saying they had not been involved as elders, youths or women leaders of the county.
“We cannot let certain individuals to use our community for selfish interests. That is why we are raising a red flag to protest the meeting with one of those seeking the governor seat," said Mohamed Hassan Dahir, the youth chairman.
Land injustices
Meanwhile, the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (Cord) on Sunday reassured the Coastal residents that the coalition will address the problem of historical land injustices if it forms the next government.
While addressing a public rally at Mtwapa grounds, Mr Musyoka said that land was the basis for economic development and a solution should be found to historical land injustices in the area.
He said the Constitution will adequately address issue pertaining to land ownership, saying it is only Cord leadership that can be trusted to fully implement the Constitution.
Mr Musyoka said the Constitution will bring changes to Kenyans and ensure the rule of law is respected.
He said that Cord will ensure that education is free from nursery school to secondary school level as well as affordable university education.
Mr Musyoka also said that the coalition will ensure there are enough jobs for the youth in the country.
He regretted that tribalism was becoming the stumbling block to a united country and called for concerted efforts in the fight against negative ethnicity.
He said Kenyans have the right to live and work in any part of the country without being intimidated.
"Let us live as brothers and sisters and discourage any attempts to be divided on grounds of our tribes. There is no Kikuyu, Kamba or Kalenjin as we are all Kenyans," said Mr Musyoka.
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