It will be a shame for Sonko to receive me at the airport Raila

The National Super Alliance (NASA) presidential candidate, Raila Odinga, has maintained his earlier claims that the current maize shortage is a crisis that has been manufactured by the Jubilee administration, so that they can capitalize on it to woo voters.

Raila has accused the government of politicizing the maize shortage issue and incompetence in dealing with a crisis that he says is gnawing Kenyans.

Speaking on Monday, June 19 as he took his campaigns to Dagoreti North and Westlands constituencies of Nairobi County, the former Prime Minister said that maize shortage crisis is artificial, orchestrated by a government that has failed Kenyans for the last four years and are trying to employ marchevalian tactics to force people to vote for them in the August 8, 2017 polls.

“They want to withhold unga so that they will supply the basic commodity to people at the eve of elections and possibly sway voters to vote for President Kenyatta. We, NASA, know that plot and we are telling them that Kenyans are mature politically and we will send them home,” said Raila.

The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader also called upon residents of Nairobi to vote for the party in all the elective seats in the county, taking his time to also rally support for incumbent Governor, Dr. Evans Kidero, who will be facing-off with Jubilee’s Senator Mike Mbuvi Sonko.

“I don’t want to be a President of Kenya who goes out for a meeting and on returning, it is Jubilee’s Mike Sonko that is receiving me at the airport. It will be a shame.”

According to Raila, NASA supporters should adopt a polling station in a move to guard their votes. Opposition leaders led by Raila have on numerous occasions refused to accept that they were fairly defeated by Jubilee Party’s President Uhuru Kenyatta in the 2013 polls, with the former Premier and Wiper Party Leader, Kalonzo Musyoka, alleging that they were rigged out.

They are insisting that this time round they are taking measures to ensure that rigging does not occur including recruiting more than 200,000 presidential agents to be deployed across all the 45,000 polling stations during the August 8, 2017 General Election.

NASA intends to deploy five of the agents in each polling station to ensure a nearly 100% voter turn-out especially in their perceived strongholds as well as guarding votes in the event of a possible rigging.

Odinga has been on the spotlight this week after the President accused him of using inflammatory statements that could harm unity of the Kenyan communities, claiming that he (Raila) had asked certain communities to vacate wherever they live and leave the land to the ancestral people during opposition’s recent tour of Kajiado County.

The Director of Public Prosecutions, Keriako Tobiko, confirmed that a probe had since been launched over the alleged hate speech and incitement to violence against the opposition leader.

 

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