NASA presidential candidate, Raila Odinga with Jubilee's President Uhuru Kenyatta in the past. [Photo/nation.co.ke]
Reliable sources have revealed that the national government is planning to stop foreign donors from funding the Opposition coalition NASA campaigns.
The Nation reports that “a multi-agency meeting chaired by the Chief of Staff and Head of Public Service Joseph Kinyua on Thursday at Harambee House resolved to closely monitor the interactions between the political parties and foreign donors, with more focus inevitably on Nasa.”
The meeting happened even as NASA presidential candidate, Raila Odinga, was in Jerusalem, and was reportedly meeting potential campaign financiers.
The high level meeting was attended by officials from the National Treasury, NIS, Directorate of Criminal Investigations and the EACC.
KRA was also represented at the meeting, according to The Nation.
The government is said to be monitoring Tanzania keenly, as it could host the Nasa parallel tallying center.
Majority Leader in the National Assembly Aden Duale claimed that President John Magufuli’s government had offered to host the opposition’s parallel presidential vote-tallying centre.
Duale, however, did not provide any evidence.
NASA principals during their recent retreat in Kilifi. [Photo/@RailaOdinga]
Sources close to Nasa have also confirmed that the coalition is seeking foreign money to supplement what has been raise locally to ensure the campaigns run smoothly.
The campaigns in the run up to the August polls, experts say, will be the most expensive in Kenya’s history.
“We will accept help from our friends abroad as long as it is done within the law. Whether such help comes or not, we are sure to mount one of the best-financed and organised campaigns in this part of the world,” said ODM treasurer and Kitutu Masaba MP Timothy Bosire.
A source close to Raila said this will be the best resourced campaign ever.
“It will be intensive and extensive,” the source was quoted by Nation.
“Vanguard Africa, an American NGO, says it will support opposition candidates while Cambridge Analytica, a firm that supported President Trump’s election, has been retained by Jubilee,” reports Nation.