Defiant Kitutu Masaba MP Timothy Bosire has ruled out apologising to President Uhuru Kenyatta and instead challenged the President to apologise to Kenyans for ‘mishandling’ security matters.
The ODM national treasurer caught national headlines on Thursday last week when he defied President Kenyatta’s order to stand in honor of Kenyan soldiers who died earlier this year in el Adde-Somalia.
Bosire also slammed pressure mounting from a section of Kenyans demanding that he apologises for demeaning the Presidency terming them as ‘myopic and clueless’.
“I have nothing to apologise about because I have not offended anybody. What I did was within my own rights as a disappointed man," said Bosire.
"The President should himself apologise to Kenyans for mishandling security matters ,” he said at his Magombo backyard.
“Those demanding me to apologise are myopic and clueless because they may not fully understand what is happening in Somalia," said Bosire.
"I have buried nine young soldiers from my constituency and the exercise is being done secretly by the government,” he added.
He called for the withdrawal of Kenyans soldier from the neighboring Somalia and challenged the government to make public names of soldiers who perished in the deadly al-Shabaab attack at el Adde camp.
“Its time that our soldiers are withdrawn from Somalia and positioned along the borders to protect our boundaries," said Bosire.
"Instead of people demanding for an apology that I don’t owe them, they should join me in challenging the government to make names of those who died public and subsequent elevation of a monument in their honor,” he added.