Sunday, October 22, 2023 – Wiper Party leader Kalonzo Musyoka has asked Kenyans who feel their government is not fulfilling promises, to go on the streets on behalf of themselves.
Speaking in Kajiado County during a church service today Sunday October 22, Mr. Musyoka said he can nolonger allow Mr. Odinga to go back on the streets for the country.
He said the mandate to check on government excesses rests on every citizen and not one or two people only.
The former vice president while responding to clergies who had called on Odibga and the opposition squad to revive street demonstrations so that to pile pressure on the current government, said anyone can start protests and not just Raila.
”You have asked Raila not to relax and keep quiet, it’s not just Raila and Kalonzo that should be advocating for the rights,” Musyoka said.
He added that he will not be party to those who want Raila back to the streets.
”You can’t wait for just Kalonzo and Raila and Kalonzo to go back to demonstrations, I can’t allow Raila to go back to demonstrations, let the country do it,” he stated further.
The ex-VP argued that another key reason they will not be going back to the streets is because, during their last round of protests around Nairobi City, there were concerted efforts to assassinate the opposition leader together with fellow key leaders.
Earlier during his visit to the Mavoko demolitions site this week, Mr Odinga had condemned the government’s move to demolish Athi River private properties; threatening to act if the government will not stop.
Before that, Odinga last month had announced that the new version of their anti-government demos will take a new style.
The Orange Democratic Movement ODM Party leader hinted at a no-leave-home kind of protests saying there are many ways of staging protests.
This, he said, will reduce police brutality against his supporters whom he claimed had been shot at with live bullets as scores of others brutally injured.
