Former Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga has said that President Uhuru Kenyatta asked him to tell Prof Makau Mutua to stop being too critical on matters of national concern.
Speaking in Kitui during the launch of the professor’s bar, Odinga said Uhuru had asked him to greet Mutua and advise him to go slow on certain matters.
Mutua has been very critical on the Jubilee government in his newspaper columns.
"When I was coming here, I told President Kenyatta that I was coming to open Makau’s hotel and he told me to tell him to stop being too critical,” Raila said.
On his part, former Vice President Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka said that the handshake should have taken into consideration different matters that could have led to national reconcillation.
He said that the President and Raila would have intervened in the court cases that resulted from their contest to state house.
“Mheshimiwa Johnstone Muthama would have been here if it were not for that case whose mention was today (Tuesday). We thought the most natural thing after the handshake would be to stop that case,” he said.
The event was attended by different guests including Kitui Governor Charity Ngilu.