NRM leader Raila Odinga and low-key officials championing the resistance movement. [Photo/ The Star]
A majority of the prominent NASA leaders appear keen not be associated with Raila Odinga’s National Resistance Movement (NRM). The key officials have kept off the NRM activities, leaving only some Luo Nyanza elected leaders to push Raila’s idea, which everyone else is ashamed of. NASA principals Kalonzo Musyoka, Moses Wetangula, and Musalia Mudavadi have largely stayed away from NRM activities, in what analysts see as a strategy to avoid taking blame when the movement sabotages the economy of the country. Key NASA leaders from the Coast, such as Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho and his Kilifi counterpart Amason Kingi have also avoided being part of the resistance movement, leaving low-key MPs from Luo Nyanza to champion the movement. The Coast leaders, having lost hope in NASA, are now reviving MRC’s secession talks. The key soldiers of the movement are Homa Bay women representative Gladys Wanga, Suna East MP Junet Mohammed and Mbita MP Millie Odhiambo. During the election period, the NRM goons in Luo Nyanza beat up women in Kisumu who were preaching peace, IEBC officials and anyone who wanted to participate in the elections on October 26. The militia managed to stop the elections in many parts of the four counties in the region. Kalonzo, Wetangula and Mudavadi, who are all not violent naturally, have now isolated Raila. They are cautious that if they take part in the NRM affairs, their political ambitions may be jeopardised.
Many Kenyans online have already opposed the resistance movement idea.