A section of Jubilee Members of Parliament have claimed that Cord leader Raila Odinga was behind the industrial unrests witnessed in the country recently.
Moses Kuria (Gatundu South) and Kimani Ichung’wa (Kikuyu), have alleged that the ODM party leader was at the centre stage of the medical workers’ and university lecturers’ strikes.
“How come that good things happen only when this man (Raila) is out of the Country?” Kuria posed referring to the successful agreements reached between the government and the doctors’ and lecturers’ unions.
He further said that President Uhuru Kenyatta’s address to parliament last week did not witness the “usual whistle blowers and hecklers” because Raila was away.
In what is seen as an overstatement, the Gatundu South legislator claimed that rains had even started in several parts of the country due to Raila’s absence.
Raila has been on a week-long tour of the US and is expected back on Monday. Before he went to US, the former prime minister was in South Africa to check on his eldest daughter and first living child after the death of Fidel Odinga, Rosemary Odinga. Rosemary has a non-cancerous brain tumour.
His Kikuyu counterpart Kimani Ichungwa, said that the opposition was built on insults, bashing President Kenyatta instead of proving to the country it was a fit alternative leadership they agitate for.
Speaking in Gichugu Constituency, the Kikuyu MP said that Uhuru Kenyatta should be voted in during the August 8 poll because “he has an agenda to move this country forward.”