[Opposition leader Raila Odinga and Busia senator Amos Wako pose for a photo when they hosted student leaders from various universities across the country for round table deliberations in Capitol Hill, March 23, 2017. Photo/rao.co.ke]
Opposition leader Raila Odinga hosted student leaders from various universities across the country for round table deliberations in Capitol Hill. The ODM Party leader acknowledged the invaluable contribution of the student movement in the struggle for multipartyism and subsequently the struggle for a new reformist constitution. ''Indeed, students have played an incontrovertible role in holding power to account in various democracies across the continent most notably in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya during the Arab Spring,'' Raila said, Thursday. The Nasa principal encouraged students to maintain a conscientious approach to societal issues reiterating that they were the cream of Kenyan intelligentsia.
He also challenged the students to mobilise their peers to vote in the forthcoming polls on the basis of issues.
Odinga urged the students to reject ethnic balkanization as a political relic from the past with no space in modern day Kenyan society.