President Uhuru Kenyatta during a past event [Photo/The Standard]
The National Super Alliance (NASA) presidential candidate Raila Odinga has been accused of trying to divide the Ameru and Kikuyu communities.
According to Mount Kenya Youth Caucus, a lobby campaigning for President Uhuru Kenyatta's re-election, the Opposition leader is sowing seeds of discord among the two communities for political expediency."Raila said the Kikuyu are cheating the Ameru that we are together yet there is no development in Meru. We have seen projects here, more are on-going and others are coming. Raila cannot claim we have not benefited from Jubilee,” said the lobby’s chairman Linford Mutembei as quoted by The Standard.The accusations comes a day after the Nasa presidential flag bearer completed his two-day campaign tour of Tharaka Nithi and Meru counties.Mutembei alleged that the former Prime Minister told communities in the larger Meru region that they have been shortchanged by their counterparts in Central Kenya even after voting overwhelmingly for President Uhuru Kenyatta in 2013 polls."He is trying to drive a wedge between the Ameru and the Kikuyu and it is very regrettable, coming from a national leader who should be a unitary figure,” said Mutembei.During his campaign tour in the region, Raila, accompanied by his NASA co-principal Moses Wetangula urged residents to vote out President Kenyatta and instead support his bid."As NASA we want your support so that we can cross the River Jordan together, on our way to Canaan,” he said on Saturday."You should not support Jubilee, stay away from them,” Raila told residents of Nkubu town in South Imenti.