PRESS STATEMENT ON THE PLOT TO KILL HON. RAILA ODINGA We are extremely disappointed with the flippant manner in which the Government of Jubilee and its security organs are treating the alleged assassination plot on The Former PM Raila Odinga. The allegations are too weighty to be wished away just like that and even in failed states like Somalia or in the jungles where Joseph Kony among other Tarzans roam, they could have ordered immediate investigations and adequate security on the former PM as is normal in any saner climes where patriotism and conscience still reigns. Should anything therefore happen to Hon. Raila Odinga like was the case of former Pakistani PM Benazir Bhutto on her return home in 2007 at a rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan when she was assassinated, we shall hold the government fully responsible. Following the ongoing unmitigated rise of untamed insecurity, slew of grenade attacks among other harrowing atrocities visited on innocent Kenyans, We hope and pray this is not a build up to a momentum of something sinister especially touching on security and life of the former PM which will definitely be shifted on the amorphous Alshabab as a decoy while the real perpetrators would be smiling like Cheshire cats having achieved their evil aims. Equally we take offense in the manner in which statehouse spokesman Manoah Esipisu reacted to this matter on today’s Sunday standard. Manoah must know that 1. Many assassinations in this country right from JM Kariuki,TJ Mboya,Ouko Robert , Odhiambo Mbai etc started as a rumor which people took as mere grapevine only to happen 2. He is a civil servant of the republic not a domestic servant at statehouse 3. The former PM is a distinguished Kenyan having served Kenya as its prime minister and being the leader of CORD voted with over 5million Kenyans deserves better if not respect from errand boys like Manoah. Mr. Manoah should stop peppering the nation with prattles and shenanigans, let him explain to Kenyans why Jubilee has become experts of failure, failing even to meet their own benchmarks and worse still to stem the tide of ravaging hunger and starvation whose savagery is currently killing Kenyans with wanton abandon in Baringo. Making careless remarks like some overzealous empty whistle; a trait only found in brigands like Boko Haram and LRA spokesmen is but a red herring to distract the nation from the well being of the former PM. Let him borrow some judicious lessons from other successful holders of the office world over. We demand that the government therefore put in place adequate security not just to ensure the former PM will be safe in future whenever he is at home but all ensure all Kenyans are safe.
Posted on: Sun, 11 May 2014 15:07:14 +0000
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