NASA principals Raila Odinga, Musalia Mudavadi, Kalonzo Musyoka and Isaac Rutto during the launch of the coalition's manifesto in Nairobi, June 27, 2017. The existence of two different Nasa manifestos could have been deliberate. [Photo: the-star.co.ke]The existence of two conflicting Nasa manifestos has continued to draw mixed reactions with lawyer and political analyst Danston Omari arguing that the move could have been made by Nasa deliberately to 'keep their competitors busy'.Omari also says that Nasa may have wanted to weigh public opinion by introducing the two documents to the public at the same time before deciding on which document to go with."It may have been a deliberate move, introduce the two documents concurrently and whichever draws criticism, disown it and move on with the one with a favourable public opinion," Omari told Citizen TV on Thursday during Opinion Court. "Alternatively, it could have been a ploy by Nasa to keep their Jubilee competitors busy so that as Jubilee is busy debating the two conflicting manifestos, Nasa is busy debating real issues," added Omari.However, the Star reveals a completely new different story reporting on Friday that NASA's manifesto was re-edited at a high-end Nairobi hotel to include unapproved multi-billion-shilling projects.The paper says it has established that technocrats at the NASA presidential secretariat only realised the existence of two versions of the manifesto on Tuesday last week, hours before the manifesto launch.Both are on the NASA website, one now called an implementation document.The existence of the two manifestos, the one with mega projects now disowned as 'not the official manifesto', has been a huge embarrassment for the alliance that says it wants to fight cartels. The second document is seen as catering to interests that want huge tenders from a NASA government, the Star reports.

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