President Uhuru Kenyatta with NASA leader Raila Odinga. [Photo/the-star.co.ke]
President Uhuru Kenyatta has hinted at holding dialogue with NASA leader Raila Odinga.
Speaking during the Jamuhuri Day on Tuesday, Uhuru said that he was willing to engaging with Kenyans on how to move the country forward.
The Head of State said he is willing to engage with all Kenyans – including leaders of the opposition – in focusing the nation on economic transformation.
“I reach out to all Kenyans to help in achieving our common goal of peace, stability and prosperity for all. It is our shared responsibility to work for these ends, knowing that we all have a role to play and that we all must listen to one another,” said the President.
He urged Kenyans to disabuse themselves of the wrong belief, which is contrary to the principles Kenya was founded on, that those who are weak can be strengthened by weakening those who are strong.
“This thinking promotes the belief that we strengthen the weak by weakening the strong; it wants us to believe that a Kenyan can climb the ladder of prosperity only if he brings down a fellow Kenyan,” said the President.
President Kenyatta called on Kenyans to totally reject the politics of divisiveness and confrontation.
He also warned that his Government will not tolerate any acts that treat Kenya’s Constitutional order with casual recklessness.
“The Constitution is the general will of all. No one is above it: no matter who you are, you are subject to its authority. Anything outside the Constitution is a hostile intrusion,” said the President.