“Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace” Western MPs Tell DP Ruto

For sometime now, DP William Ruto has insisted that there is a group of leaders that are pushing for the referendum so that they can get leadership positions assigned to them.

A section of MPs from Western have now lashed out at the Deputy President William Ruto over his stand on the proposed referendum.

They Senator Cleophas Malala, Nominated MP Godfrey Osotsi, and Busia Woman Representative Florence Mutua.

Speaking to the press in Kakamega town, the lotĀ asked the deputy presidentĀ to name the people seeking to create positions through the proposed referendum.

“Why is the DP insisting Kenyans do not want a referendum yet there is even no question to debate?” Florence Mutua asked.

“Let them not tell us about faceless people. Be man enough to mention names of those seeking new positions,” she added.

“Give the Building Bridges team time to make its recommendations. If they recommend a referendum we will be a strong “yes” team,” she said.

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Ruto was quoted at the weekend as having dismissed the call for the plebiscite as a drive to “create positions for a few people in Nairobi.”

Speaking at the home coming ceremony of Sirisia MP John Welukhe, the deputy President dismissed the call as aimed at undermining the local leadership by merging the counties and county assembly wards.

He also led MPs and other leaders allied to him in characterising the referendum push as a drive to create positions “for a person who should be proceeding to retirement in peace.”

 

The DP had earlier in the year voiced his support for the referendum proposal only if it “would be seeking to improve the lives of Kenyans.”

Malala claimed the DP and his team are only obsessed with “his 2022 presidential run,” asking them to do a different brand of politics.

“He must make his mind whether to support or oppose the referendum. He can’t continue changing his tune depending on where he visits,” Malala added.

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