President Uhuru Kenyatta says he wants to be remembered for defending the Constitution when he leaves office.
“I will defend the Constitution because that is the consistency that I want people to remember me for. So I urge all of us, the 40 million Kenyans, to go by the constitution,” Uhuru said.
Uhuru who spoke Friday during the fourth National Prayer Breakfast at Safari Park Hotel in Nairobi insisted the IEBC issue should be handled in parliament as the law states.
But it is Deputy President William Ruto who left many in stitches with his remarks ove the IEBC standoff
He said some members of Parliament had asked the Jubilee leadership to appoint Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria and his Kabete counterpart Ferdinand Waititu popularly known as Baba Yao, to lead dialogue with Cord over the IEBC stalemate.
Ruto said; “I met some friends from the national assembly yesterday and they were telling me; ‘because our brothers the other side (Cord) have appointed Muthama and Orengo, (Senators for Machakos and Siaya respectively), so why don’t we (Jubilee) appoint Moses Kuria and Baba Yao?’
This made the attendants who included First Lady Margaret Kenyatta, MPs among them Waititu, senators and governors, to burst into laughter.
Their remarks come at a time when the opposition Cord is pushing for electoral reforms,before the 2017 polls.
The Cord leadership has already appointed a team of five to lead the talks with Jubilee, including Mishi Mboko (Mombasa woman rep), Junet Mohamed (Suna East), Eseli Simiyu (Tongaren) who will join senators Orengo and Muthama for the proposed talks.
The coalition says if the talks fail, they will go back to the streets to push the IEBC commissioners out of office.
However, State House has denied Uhuru and Raila reached such a deal during their meeting on Tuesday.