Opposition leader Raila Odinga (C) alongside Mombasa governor Ali Hassan Joho (R) in Machakos, June 5, 2017. [Phuoto: Courtesy]Following the ongoing hunger and maize shortage in the country, Opposition leader Raila Odinga has made four demands to the Jubilee government.He accused President Uhuru Kenyatta and his leadership, of causing the hunger, and demanded that he takes responsibility."The president must take personal responsibility for the hunger of Kenyans," he said, in a statement, Wednesday."We are demanding the following:1. President Uhuru Kenyatta must immediately get on to the earliest flight to Ethiopia to ask his counterpart to sell us maize. It will be cheaper and it will get here faster. When the President was faced by the ICC matter, he continuously lobbied Ethiopia for their support against the charges he faced. Why is he finding it inconveniencing to go to Ethiopia and lobby them for the sake of hungry Kenyans?2. Immediately fire the CS and PS of agriculture and the CS of Devolution and Planning for deliberately misleading Kenyans on the famine situation.3. Remove the responsibility of importing maize from private millers entrust it on the Strategic Grain Reserves Fund. The fund officers must go to Ethiopia and carry out emergency purchases and ensure they get to Kenya immediately. The government has abdicated authority for a national security threat to profit making companies4. Immediately form a commission to inquire into the present food shortage with a view to ascertaining and reporting on the causes thereof, and to make recommendations to prevent recurrence."

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