Lawyer and author Miguna Miguna has reacted after a section of Western Kenya leaders told Deputy President William Ruto to keep off the region.
Led by Makadara Member of Parliament George Aladwa, the leaders termed the DP as an outsider and vowed not to allow him organize members of the Luhya community 'like chicken'.
“Ruto should keep off Luhya politics. He should let us organise ourselves for 2022. We have our own leaders,” Aladwa said as quoted by the Nation.
Speaking on Saturday during the burial of legendary footballer Joe Kadenge in Vihiga County, the ODM legislator said the Luhya community will not rally behind Ruto, but will back region's political heavyweights; Amani National Congress leader Musalia Mudavadi, his Ford-Kenya counterpart Moses Wetang'ula and Devolution Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa, in the 2022 polls.
"We will lay out our plans ... we will not accept to be planned. We want to send the message that we have leaders in Musalia, Wetang'ula and Wamalwa and that they should be respected," said Aladwa.
Miguna termed the sentiments as desperate and said the Luhya Nation, as well as other communities, should be free to participate and make their choices in an election without being coerced.
"Desperate Kenyan cartels, despots and their surrogates don't understand that Kenyans, including members of the Luhya Nation as well those belonging to other nations/communities, need social justice and electoral, which have no ethnic DNA," the lawyer tweeted on Saturday.