Azimio La Umoja-One Kenya coalition party presidential candidate Raila Odinga has poked holes in Deputy President William Ruto’s Kenya Kwanza Alliance manifesto which was unveiled on Thursday.
Odinga, who will lock horns with Ruto in the August 9th presidential contest, accused his main competitor of failing to show commitment to fighting corruption should he be elected president in the upcoming elections.
Addressing a campaign rally in Nyamira County on Friday, Odinga scoffed at the Kenya Kwanza manifesto, saying it failed to outline how Ruto’s government would tackle the vice that he described as the country’s biggest problem.
“There is this guy who launched his manifesto yesterday and I was listening keenly when he did so. I did not hear him mention the war on corruption even once. He spoke about increasing salaries, granting more authority to judges but not how to tackle graft and theft of public resources,” said Odinga.
At the same time, Raila’s campaign secretariat labeled Ruto’s manifesto which was launched at the Kasarani Stadium as “underwhelming and punctuated by empty promises.”
“The word corruption was not mentioned and did not cross Mr. Ruto’s lips even once. Like the plague, Mr. Ruto completely avoided any mention of the word. We know why,” Odinga’s Presidential Campaign Secretariat spokesperson Prof. Makau Mutua said in a statement on Friday.
Mutua further described the Ruto-led Kenya Kwanza outfit as “the home of the largest collection of questionable political characters in the country.”
“It is no wonder that Mr. Ruto and Kenya Kwanza have no agenda or plan to address corruption, the number one impediment to the development of our country. Nothing will ever go forward in this country without slaying the dragon of corruption,” added Mutua.
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