US ambassador to Kenya Robert Godec with other envoys addressing journalists at the Bomas of Kenya recently. A section of Jubilee MPs has written to the international community over Raila's withdrawal from the presidential race. [Photo: NMG]A section of Jubilee MPs has written to the international community asking it not support any extra-constitutional means aimed at breaking the current political impasse in the country.The letter is addressed to representatives of the European Union, its member states, Britain, the United Nations, the United States of America, the African Union and member nations.The 12 MPs asks the envoys not to believe the insinuation that there is going to be a constitutional crisis, according to the Nation."We respectfully ask you, as our international partners, not to be party to this subversion of Kenya’s constitutional order, at the very least."However, we wish you went further and called wrong that which is wrong, by demanding that Raila Odinga stop grandstanding and trying to subvert the law to achieve his own personal and selfish political needs," the MPs said in the letter.They said the announcement by NASA presidential candidate Raila Odinga that he had withdrawn from the October 26 election was meant to avoid a loss and to cause instability."In withdrawing and then calling for heightened violent mass protests and then travelling to capitals of developed countries, Raila Odinga seeks to manipulate the international community into pushing Kenya into discussions on extra-constitutional solutions to the problems that he is deliberately creating, to benefit him," the MPs are quoted by the Nation as saying.The legislators, who signed the letter are Peter Kihara (Mathioya), Patrick Munene (Chuka/Igambang’ombe), Purity Ngirici (Kirinyaga Woman Rep), Ngunjiri Wambugu (Nyeri Town), Patrick Mariru (Laikipia West) and Gathoni Wamuchomba (Kiambu Woman Rep).Others are Ndindi Nyoro (Kiharu), Anthony Kiai (Mukurweini), Didymus Barasa (Kimilili), Faith Gitau (Nyandarua Woman Rep), Gideon Keter (Nominated) and James Mwangi (Tetu).The MPs said they had signed the letter in their personal capacities as MPs.

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