Cord leader Raila Odinga on Friday took the coalition's Okoa Kenya Movement campaigns to Kisii County, asking residents to support the initiative which he said aims at making devolution a reality.
Odinga asked the Gusii community to remain in the Orange Democratic Movement, one of the parties forming the Cord, reminding them that they will be better off in the coalition which he said will form the next government.
Speaking in Kisii town on his way from Nyabururu National School after attending a burial of St Joseph's Nyabigena Secondary School principal Joseph Obare Oseko, the former premier tickled the crowd when he asked whether the Gusii community was "equal to chicken whose role was to be given maize grains as other communities continued enjoying fruits of the country's independence."
The Cord leader challenged residents from the two Gusii counties -Kisii and Nyamira- to apply for national identity cards to facilitate them to register as voters and participate in changing the current leadership saying the top executive leaders were taking the country back to the dark days of the single party state.
Under the Jubilee administration, Odinga said, tribalism and corruption had taken a toll on the country's economic prosperity as the top leadership continued condoning corruption, and ethnicity in state appointments which favoured members from the two top leaders' communities.
"I am challenging members of the Gusii community to support the Okoa Kenya Movement to ensure 45 per cent of the national resources is channelled to the counties to support development projects at the grassroots instead of being misled by selfish politicians that they should work with the national government for them to achieve development,"stated Odinga.