Deputy President William Ruto alongside Elgeyo Marakwet Senator Kipchumba Murkomen (photo|the star)A section of Jubilee leaders led by deputy president William Ruto and Senate majority leader Kipchumba Murkomen have hit back of NASA's purported economic boycott.
The leaders have accused the opposition coalition’s boycott call as an extortionist scheme to scare other firms into parting with money in order to be removed from the NASA’s boycott list.In a Twitter post, DP urged the mentioned companies to continue their investment expansion locally despite the consumer boycott call by NASA.“As GoK we ask all companies to continue to partner with Kenyans, pay taxes ONLY to KRA and reject the extortion scheme-styled ‘e-boycott’. We advise BIDCO to reject extortion and continue its Ksh20 billion expansion programme that will increase to 12,500 Kenyans working there,"read Ruto 's post.On the other hand, Elgeyo Marakwet Senator Kipchumba Murkomen has accused NASA leaders of threatening local companies in their economic boycott campaign.“NASA leaders led by Tinga soliciting bribes from companies to avoid naming them in the boycott list. It's not boycotting they are just broke!” wrote Murkomen.This comes just hours after NASA parliamentarians led by Homa Bay Woman Rep Gladys Wanga asked Kenyans to boycott Safaricom, Brookside Dairy and BIDCO products and services.According to the legislators, the named companies are guilty of working with the government to “frustrate the dreams and aspirations” of Kenyan