Thirdway Alliance Party has reiterated its full backing of the current national unity emanating from the March 9 reconciliation between President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga.
Speaking on Radio Jambo Monday evening, the party Secretary General Frederick Okango noted that Thirdway party leader Dr. Ekuru Aukot was among the first individuals to congratulate the two leaders for reaching the agreement.
He revealed that Aukot called both leaders the next day to welcome the truce which has since seen the nation calm down with regards to the political and ethnic division that was being witnessed earlier as a result of last year’s disputed presidential elections.
‘’Sisi tumekaribisha handshake na hata kiongozi wetu alipowaona viongozi hao wamekubaliana aliwapigia simu siku iliyofuatia ya Jumamosi na kuwapongeza (we have welcomed the handshake and our leader, actually, went ahead to call them the next day to congratulate them),’’ he said.
He added that the party is in full support of the ongoing anti-graft campaign spearheaded by the President, saying that the party is as well happy with the progress of the push.
With regards to the recent proposal by the Council of Governors to have incumbent county chiefs given immunity from prosecution, he noted that the party is completely against the push.
Okango noted that whoever is implicated in graft must be subjected to the existing legal procedure.
‘’Magavana waache kulia eti wakingwe kama rais na sisi sasa tunataka Auditor General awachunguze wote na watakaopatikana na makosa wawasilishwe kortini (Governors should stop pushing for immunity. We are actually now calling upon the Auditor General to concentrate on them and have anyone found to have misused public funds prosecuted),’’ he added.