Deputy President William Ruto (C) during Sunday service at the Redeemed Gospel Church, Buru Buru, in Nairobi County, January 28, 2018. [Photo|DPPS]
Deputy President William Ruto has dismissed NASA coalition's plans to swear-in Raila Odinga and his Deputy Kalonzo Musyoka as president and deputy president respectively.
The opposition plans to conduct the ceremony on January 30, at the Uhuru Park Grounds in Nairobi, despite the police saying nobody would be allowed to access the venue.
NASA intends to inaugurate its two leaders basing on the August 8th 2017 general elections, in which the coalition says it emerged victor but the electoral body rigged them out in favour of Ruto and his boss President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Speaking when he attended a Sunday service at the Redeemed Gospel Church, Buru Buru, in Nairobi County, Ruto said the government was not moved by NASA's inauguration plans.
He said the government and Kenyans were aware that time of electing their leaders ended and that it was time for the leaders to deliver and not to politic.
According to Ruto, everything would go on as planned by government and that the controversial swearing-in will not stop the government or Kenyans from going on with normal operations.
His statements contradicts with that of Meru Governor Kiraitu Murungi, who recently said the government should allow Odinga to swear himself in and see what happens next.
During a burial ceremony of former KTDA chairman Stephen Mutai in Imenti South on January 20, flanked by Tharaka Nithi Senator Kithure Kindiki, the Jubilee governor said Raila should be sworn-in since he would go nowhere after.
"Let him be sworn-in as he wants. At least when Uhuru was sworn-in, he went to State House. Where will Raila Odinga go after being sworn in? So let Raila be sworn in because after his swearing-in night will come. I don’t see why there should be uncertainty over this matter," said the Kiraitu.