A number of MPs affiliated to the Jubilee Party has called on the international community not to be party to any negotiations on the current election row facing the country outside the provisions of the constitution.
In a letter addressed representatives to the European Union, its member states, Britain, the United Nations, the United States of America and the African Union, the 12 MPs told diplomats not to be cheated with claims that the country is in the cusp of a constitutional crisis.
The MPs termed the move by Raila to bow out of the race as a scheme avoid a humiliating defeat and to cause instability in the country.
“We respectfully ask you, as our international partners, not to be party to this subversion of Kenya’s constitutional order, at the very least,”. “However, we wish you went further and called wrong that which is wrong, by demanding that Raila Odinga stop grandstanding and trying to subvert the law to achieve his own personal and selfish political needs,” the MPs said in the letter.
They further presented that it was opposition’s happiness to plunge the country to political uncertainty and confusion. “In withdrawing and then calling for heightened violent mass protests and then traveling to capitals of devolved countries, Raila Odinga seeks to manipulate the international community into pushing Kenya into discussions on extra-constitutional solutions to the problems that he is deliberately creating, to benefit him,” the MPs said.
The letter to the envoys was signed by MPs Peter Kihara (Mathioya), Patrick Munene (Chuka/Igambang’ombe), Purity Ngirici (Kirinyaga Woman Rep), Ngunjiri Wambugu (Nyeri Town), Patrick Mariru (Laikipia West) and Gathoni Wamuchomba (Kiambu Woman Rep). Others are Ndindi Nyoro (Kiharu), Anthony Kiai (Mukurweini), Didmus Barasa (Kimilili), Faith Gitau (Nyandarua Woman Rep), Gideon Keter (Nominated) and James Mwangi (Tetu).
They also castigated Nasa’s “irreducible minimums” to the electoral commission, saying it was a ploy to derail the repeat poll ordered by the Supreme Court. “In making these demands, Raila Odinga does not seek to reform the electoral process in Kenya. What he seeks is to force administrative changes to the management of the IEBC,” they said in the letter.
