President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga have reportedly canceled a planned tour to the Mt. Kenya region.
The Daily Nation reports that Kenyatta and Odinga were set to visit the region this month or early May to popularize the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI), which was born after their historic March 9th, 2018 handshake.
However, the tour has been deferred to June after intelligence revealed that the two would get a hostile reception.
The Daily Nation says that there is a growing rebellion toward President Kenyatta and Odinga’s handshake in Mt. Kenya as residents and area leaders increasingly rally behind Deputy President William Ruto.
An MP who spoke to the publication says Mt. Kenya leaders and residents view the handshake as a plot to shortchange Ruto.
“Ruto’s popularity is growing in the region. People feel he stood with the region when Raila was against it,” the MP says.
Political analyst James Kamau says Mt. Kenya leaders and residents appear to have lost trust in Kenyatta.
“We have been witnessing leaders from Mr. Ruto’s faction from Mt Kenya’s region, which is the political bedrock of Mr. Kenyatta, accuse the President of neglecting the region; while they accuse Mr. Odinga of hatching a plot to divide the ruling party, a move that could have informed them to postpone the meeting,” explains Kamau.
Sources say organizers of the tour want more consultations done to include all area leaders before Kenyatta and Odinga embark on the visit.
“We are yet to know the date, but the meeting is there. It is aimed at popularizing the handshake and uniting the nation as the President promised after greeting Odinga,” Gatanga MP Nduati Ngugi told the Nation.
PR and gimmicks are catching…
PR and gimmicks are catching up with him. From one abusive leader to another though. How anyone in Kenya can accept a rapacious looter to be the leader is truly confounding. What use is independence if the so called local leaders are worse than the colonialists.
People are tired of the…
People are tired of the Dynasties and old tricks. They want real and practical leadership that today is hard to find or does not exist in the Kenya. Raila must be ready to popularise his achievements ( what he has achieved for more than 40 years in politics) and not a meaningless handshake. No one wants a leader whose achievements are popularised by a word of mouth with nothing to back it. Raila’s legacy is that of violence and division ( it is the same legacy as that of colonialists- Edormites). Mt Kenya is part of the Hebrew Israelites that is going back to their God and slowing closing the old chapter of joining hands with violence and pure hunger for empty power.(Power for powers sake). Kenyan’s are awake. The bible is the Hebrew Israelites history and constitution. Raila’s best chance is to hand over the hunger for power to the next generation. He is done!!
Ati wazaliwa wa Mlima wa…
Ati wazaliwa wa Mlima wa Kenya:
“…The Daily Nation says that there is a growing rebellion toward President Kenyatta and Odinga’s handshake in Mt. Kenya as residents and area leaders increasingly rally behind Deputy President William Ruto.”
Kenya itakwisha kabisa kama mkristo Ruto atakuwa rais wa Kenya. Nimestaajabu sana kuona watu waliopigania uhuru wakati wa mkoloni wakimtaka jambazi na pia tapeli Ruto achukue uongozi 2022!
Ndugu Mugikuyu: Ningependa…
Ndugu Mugikuyu: Ningependa kuona maoni yako juu ya tapeli na pia jambazi mkristo Ruto kuwa kiongozi wa Kenya 2022!
@Imara this is somehow good…
@Imara this is somehow good news because Uhuru can not continue to take the Agikuyu people for granted. There are two factions right now. The “kiweleweke” and the .”tanga-tanga” Mr Tangatanga himself has poured a lot of looted cash into churches in the Mt Kenya region in the last five years while Kamwana was busy imbibing on tusker kabla ya kazi like Jamama would say. He also financed and rigged quite a few politicians from Mt Kenya and now he enjoys a strong Tangatanga movement. Doubt it is grassroot based. These are the same politicians creating hostile environment for Raila and Kamwana. Come 2022 we can only hope a complete self-transformation on voters will have taken place in Mt. Kenya to send all these thugs home and more so arap Mashamba himself.
DN has moved to the class of…
DN has moved to the class of “gutter press”. What will happen between now and June to neutralize the presumed “hostile reception” in April and May? Mt Kenya is among the peaceful regions in the country, where any party can meet and promote their manifesto without fear or intimidation.
Kenyans including Mt Kenya…
Kenyans including Mt Kenya are not stupid. By now everyone knows Raila is a violent person who apes Western countries to a fault especially America and Britain. (remember: Pentagon, capital hill, even NASA is a name of America space program, National Aeronautics And Space Administration). He now places his hand over his heart during national anthem singing just because Americans do it. Nothing original in this man. Most Kenyans fear that Raila would turn Kenya into a British/American puppet more than we already are if he was to raise to the presidency. His violence tendency is legendary. After 1982 coup, hundreds of Kenya’s finest Airforce- men; trained abroad were imprisoned for life or hanged by Moi government while the coup master-mind (Raila) hired a British lawyer and walked away. Many other Kenyans have died since over Raila’s theatrical maneuvers to wrestle Kenya’s power. During 2007-08 PEV, Raila went for the blood of Kikuyus. On radio and television in Mombasa, Eldoret, Kericho, Kisumu, Nakuru and parts of Nairobi,he called on his supporters to continue mass protests- which meant to burn down Kenya and kill Kikuyus. In Kiambaa church, 50 unarmed Kikuyu women and children some as young as a month old were locked in the church and burnt alive. There was burning of schools, looting of businesses, harassing and beating up of motorists, burning vehicles- total chaos, violence and animosity that magically ended when Raila and his daughter met Uhuru. I wonder why there is calm in the nation ever since? But I also know that if there is a rapist in town, raping stops and women breathe easy once the rapist is apprehended. Since Raila was tethered by Uhuru, Kenya has known relative calm and peace. Raila represents Kenya’s past not the future. For more than 40 years, Raila has been in our political space, including being a cabinet minister and even a prime minister and at all times, violence and corruption has been our stock in trade.
Imara Daima. Ruto atakua…
Imara Daima. Ruto atakua Rais wa Kenya upende usipende.
Whoever understand mt. Kenya…
Whoever understand mt. Kenya politics knows very well they not support Ruto
Asante @Mugikuyu.
Asante @Mugikuyu.
@Wabirithi: Hata muuaji…
@Wabirithi: Hata muuaji kama Adolph Hitler alipigiwa kura na watu wahalifu kama yeye katika nchi ya Ujerumani. Mkenya yeyote atakayempigia Ruto kura, ni mhalifu kama yeye na bila shaka ameshapokea hongo kutoka kwake.
Demokrasia ni mfumo mmoja wa siasa ambao umejaa uhalifu mwingi kama katika makanisa na misikiti. Hebu tazama aliyechaguliwa kuwa kiongozi wa nchi ya Marekani sasa!
Ii can’t imagn raila the…
Ii can’t imagn raila the killer of Kikuyu being our prezo ,rem all our pple were killed ,others raped and ….by luos nt forgetting majiboism ,raila anafaa akifika mt Kenya to be stoned to kill
Uchaguzi ujao ni muhimu sana…
Uchaguzi ujao ni muhimu sana katika nchi yetu. Ni lazima yeyote anayetaka kugombea kiti chochote apewe cheti cha kuwa “binadamu bora” na Haji, Kinoti, na wanaohusika na ufisadi nchini.
Itakuwa kosa kubwa sana kumruhusu ndugu WAFULA CHEBUKATI kusimamia jambo hili tena. Tapeli huyu aliwaruhusu matapeli wenzake, majambazi, wauza madawa ya kulevya, wabakaji wanawake, wezi wa mali ya umma, walevi, wavutaji bangi, wafanya wasichana mimba wakiwa chuoni kugombea uchaguzi. ambazo zimefanya ufisadi kuwa mwingi sana nchini. Wengi wa waliochaguliwa ni majambazi sugu na hawawezi kubadili tabia zao mbovu za kufilisi nchi yetu.