Former Machakos senator Johnson Muthama has expressed disappointment with President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga over what he terms as slow pace in implementing their unity deal.
Muthama says that Uhuru and Raila have kept the country in suspense by remaining silent on the deal they signed on March 9.
According to Muthama, president Kenyatta and Raila must expeditiously implement the unity deal.
The former senator observed that time is running out and that it will be difficult to implement the deal once campaigns for 2022 begin.
“Kenyans don’t know on what the two leaders agreed and whatever they must implement now on what they agreed after the March 9 handshake,” he said during an interview on a local Kamba radio station on Friday.
Muthama said that electoral reforms and justice should be the number one agenda in the unity deal.
He stated that Kenyans have no faith in the current IEBC and would not want it to conduct the 2022 polls.
“The IEBC needs serious reforms to guarantee fair and credible polls in 2022,” he said.
Muthama also asked President Kenyatta to ensure justice is served to victims of poll violence.
He said that families that lost their kin and relatives in post poll violence must be compensated.
He warned that unless drastic reforms are carried out, the 2022 general election will not be free and fair.
Muthama asked politicians across the divide to unite and push for electoral reforms.
He also asked politicians to champion reconciliation.
President Kenyatta and Raila agreed to shelve their differences and heal the country in their famous March 9 handshake.
The two leaders then formed the ‘Building Bridges’ Committee to come up with proposals on how to reconcile the country.
The committee is still drafting proposals with reports that its members will move across the country to get Kenyans views.
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