Deputy President William Ruto on Sunday told off the Opposition
over its planned demonstrations against enactment of the Security Bill
signed by President Uhuru Kenyatta last Friday.
He said
there was no need of taking Kenyans on such a route at a time when the
country is still recovering from the wounds of the 2007/2008
post-election violence.
Mr Ruto who spoke in Ziwa,
Uasin Gishu County during a funds drive in aid of AIC Ziwa Township told
the Opposition to save Kenyans the chaos and confusion witnessed in
their political parties.
“The Opposition will achieve
nothing through the continuous anarchy they take to the National
Assembly and in their political parties,” he said.
But
Mr Ruto explained that the ruling Jubilee administration was not against
issues raised by the Opposition but instead advised them to adhere to
the provisions of the Constitution.
At the same time, seven Jubilee MPs accused their counterparts in the opposition of betrayal when passing the law.
The
lawmakers, while launching- Usalama Kenya Forum (UKF) – a forum to
popularise the Security Laws (Amendment) Act (2014) said they had struck
an agreement with their colleagues in the opposition but the Cord
lawmakers turned against them on the D-Day.
“There were
consultations on Wednesday and we all agreed which clauses were to be
deleted but when we went to Parliament the following day, some MPs
decided to politicise the whole Bill,”Machakos Town MP Victor Munyaka
who belongs to Chama cha Uzalendo (CCU) told a press conference they had
convened at a Nairobi Hotel to launch the forum yesterday.
Ol
Kalou MP David Kiaraho asked Kenyans to ignore Cord leaders and allow
the government to implement the new law to save the country from
terrorism.
But in a press statement, Mandera Senator
Billow Kerrow, who is a member of the Jubilee Coalition, criticised the
law saying it takes away fundamental rights
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