How much did Raila receive for the handshake? (Fresh details)

There has been politics surrounding the handshake between President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga that was witnessed on March 9, 2019.

While President Kenyatta and Raila argue that it was a decision reached at between the two to end the political tension that was being witnessed in the country after the much disputed 2017 polls, some political pundits argue that Raila was paid to enter into the political truce with President Kenyatta.

Although Uhuru won the presidency his victory was pyrrhic. He soon realised that reliance on the State’s coercive powers alone was not sufficient to ensure that the country remained united and peaceful.

He required more genuine legitimacy to be able to exercise control and to foster social and economic development. Similarly, Raila found out that his swearing-in as the people’s president, without the support of established State institutions, would only exacerbate divisions in the country.

The handshake was, therefore, a shift by the two leaders from the political realism of vicious power struggle towards the idealism or utopianism of nation-building.

But who is saying the truth? Pundits or the handshake partners? Well, some of the pundits are now interpreting the handshake differently.

Last week Wednesday, Citizen TV’s Jeff Koinange had a one on one interview with exiled lawyer Dr Miguna Miguna on his weekly JKLIVE show aired every Wednesday night.

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During the interview, Miguna Miguna who commissioned Raila’s oath at Uhuru Park gave the untold details surrounding the handshake, his deportation and the 2017 politics.

However, Miguna Miguna later claimed that the tape ran by Citizen TV had been edited. He said the most important details which he felt Kenyans should know were removed.

These includes the much Raila was paid for the handshake, where they met, and with who.

In the audio clip that Miguna Miguna shared on Sunday which he claims has the part that was edited by Citizen TV, Miguna Miguna states that Raila was bribed Ksh 50 billion.

Miguna claims that the African Union envoy was paid in installments, the first of which was paid in Zanzibar. Miguna says that the installment was paid after Raila’s return from the US whereby several people who had assembled at the JKIA to reserve him were brutally murdered in their confrontation with the police.

Miguna, in yet another brutal comment says that Raila received the payment after sacrificing 18 of his supporters to President Kenyatta.

He further reveals that two days later, Raila went back to Zanzibar in the company of businessman Jimmy Wanjigi, his party’s director of elections Junnet Mohamed, Jakoyo Midiwo and some others he didn’t name, where he received Ksh 25 billion.

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