Former Vice President Musalia Mudavadi and Amani Coalition leader with
Sabatia MP Alfred Agoi (second right), British High commissioner Dr
Christian Turner and Sabatia Hospital Chairman Alfred Lulu during a tour
of the hospital on October 29, 2015. Musalia Mudavadi has asked the
Jubilee coalition to “stop fooling Kenyans” and explain how it used the
Sh275 billion Eurobond or resign to pave way for capable leaders. PHOTO |
TOM OTIENO | NATION MEDIA GROUP
Amani National Congress leader Musalia Mudavadi has asked the
Jubilee coalition to “stop fooling Kenyans” and explain how it used the
Sh275 billion Eurobond.
He said rampant corruption and
lavish spending has lead to the stagnation of the economy and asked the
Jubilee administration to resign and pave way for capable leaders.
Mr Mudavadi dismissed the explanation by Treasury officials that the Eurobond billions were used prudently.
SANCTIONED CORRUPTION
“You
can fool some people most of the time, but you can’t lie to everybody
all the time. The least you can do is admitting you don’t know what
you’re doing and pave way for those capable,” said the former Sabatia
lawmaker amid cheers when he addressed more than 2,000 members of the
Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) at Kaimosi in
Vihiga County.
“The floodgates of sanctioned corruption are open. No one wants to be accountable,” Mr Mudavadi said.
“The
cost of living has sky-rocketed and the government cannot account for
what it did with the Eurobond money. The Eurobond saga is such an
exercise in contempt to the public and rules of accountability when the
economy is tipping, there is a cash crunch and government cannot raise
salaries.”
JUBILEE DEFENDERS
But Jubilee MPs have defended government over the handling of the Eurobond.
National
Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale, Kabete MP Ferdinand Waititu and
Ibrahim Sani (Garsen) accused ODM leader Raila Odinga of politicising
the issue for selfish gain.
The leaders took issue with
Mr Odinga for coming up with what they described as cooked figures to
“shore up the dwindling fortunes of Cord”.
Mr Odinga told the Sunday Nation last week that powerful individuals were trading with the Eurobond cash for private gain and had made about Sh34 billion.
In
response, Mr Waititu said yesterday; “The former prime minister is
commenting on the issue of Eurobond and yet he does not understand what
the Eurobond is all about.”
POOR MANAGEMENT
Mr
Mudavadi, a former minister of Finance, said poor financial management
had led to an increase in interest rates over the last one year.
He noted that people are painfully losing savings at the stock exchange and could not repay their loans.
Mr
Mudavadi said: “I saw Kenya through the tumultuous 1990s when the
country had been made a pariah as a result of Goldenberg looting. I got
the country moving again from the doldrums through major economic
reforms. It is clear the infectious bug is biting us all over again.”
Mr Mudavadi told teachers, parents and the rest of Kenyans, that they had two choices to make come 2017.
He
said: “You can choose team ANC of Musalia Mudavadi in 2017 to restore
sanity and give Kenyans a decent life because he knows what do to and
has done it before or an incompetent Jubilee and a decaying Cord.”
He
said symbiotic relationship between the teachers, their employer
(Teachers’ Service Commission) and the government was lacking.
“It
is clear that in recent times teachers’ unions have put more emphasis
in industrial action as a response to government intransigence. In this
confrontation, matters of quality education have taken a back seat,” he
said.
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