A section of Kenya Kwanza leaders akin to President William Ruto have continued with their clarion call for unity and the need to embrace cohesion, saying they will not allow any leader to divide the country along tribal and ethnic lines.
The leaders also asked Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua and his cronies to stop politics that appeared to blackmail some leaders opposed to his leadership.
National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula challenged elected leaders to focus their attention on delivering services to the Kenyan people instead of engaging in retrogressive politics that would plunge the country into divisions and ethnic tension.
He said there are many variables among them services, infrastructure development, education, issues of marginalization among others and hence underscored the need for leaders to look for a possible formula that would work well with all Kenyans in mind.
The leaders spoke at Mary Mother of Graces Catholic Parish-Marmanet in Laikipia West Constituency during a Sunday services-cum fundraising in aid of the construction of the church Multi-purpose Hall.
The leaders affirmed that without unity, no meaningful development can be realized and hence there was a need for leaders to engage in constructive politics.
The speaker was franked by National Assembly Leader of Majority Kimani Ichung’wah, Investment, Trade and Industrialization Cabinet Secretary Rebecca Miano, Laikipia Senator John Kinyua and County Women Rep’ Jayne Kagiri, Laikipia West Member of Parliament Wachira Karani among others.
The leaders took issue with outbursts allegedly from the Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua in his clemency in the Mount Kenya leadership battle but pleaded with MPs and government officials to track President Ruto’s recent directive for leaders to desist from tribal and ethnic politics.
On the Revenue allocation debate, the leaders differed with the One-Man-One Vote-One-Shilling calls.
The Leader of Majority has asked Senators to draft a bill that will establish the process of division of revenue in accordance with the necessary requirements, forward their recommendations to the Commission of Revenue Allocation (CRA) and the Intergovernmental Budget and Economic Council (IBEC) chaired by Gachagua can now come up with a workable formula.
He added that using public forums to clamor for the One-man-one vote-one shilling agenda would not help much, but will only serve as a pointer to ethnic divisions.
