Raila conversing with Bett and Lagat in a past function[Photo/The Star]
The NASA coalition has promised to change the government structure once they accent to power from a pure presidential system to a hybrid system that incorporates both the presidential and parliamentary systems which would require a referendum.
The coalition claims that the presidential system has been an opaque, inefficient, less accountable to the electorate and ineffective. There are reports that it would change the system through a referendum during its 100 days in power.
However, former MP Frankline Bett sees this as an ill-advised idea as the country is currently bleeding from high cost of living and cannot afford a referendum more so in the first 100 days of power as the country would just have come from a general election.
“I will tell Raila to shut up, there is no need. We have got more problems today than creating other problems. There is nothing worse than your people suffering because they cannot afford food because it is expensive, it is painful,” wrote Bett in The Star
He continued, “I would urge Raila today not to waste time on that issue at the moment, the time is not ripe. This is not the time to create other problems, let us build on what we have and what we have are issues of social economics that are really biting us.”