ANGRY RAILA BLASTS VILLAGERS

In what appears to be a deliberate and daring change of tact, the former Prime Minister seems to have adopted a combative and unapologetic demeanour. Barely a week after unequivocally declaring that Central Kenya had his debt and he would be coming to collect, he has now issued another potentially controversial statement that tanga tanga operatives will likely run away with.

Speaking yesterday at the Co-operative University in Karen where he was meeting a section of MCAs from across the region, he said that whenever villagers come to him with their ailing kin, he asks them whether they think he is a doctor.

Speaking in response to demands by MCAs of car grants, he said he supported the calls because MCAs were closer to the people, and so needed more resources to facilitate them than even leaders in higher levels of leadership.

”’At my level, when I go back to the village, I still have endless streams of people flocking into my house, what about MCAs who are much closer to the people? People…come to me with their sick, and I ask them if they think I am a doctor. If you need help to take someone to hospital, then perhaps I can help with that, but if you bring me a sick person, what am I expected to do?”

In the hard-hitting address, he lashed out at those opposed to the BBI including the Deputy President, and the recently formed organisation Linda Katiba. Drawing from Abraham Lincoln, whom he described as the most famous hustler leader, he said that Lincoln never gave people wheelbarrows but instead built an enviable system of Universities.

He said that poverty was never solved by sloganeering, and mentioning things like mama mboga, or boda.bodas. On the recently formed Linda Katiba group led by two of his former allies, NARC Kenya leader Martha Karua, and economist, David Ndii, he wondered what exactly the group, which has sworn to protect the constitution, was protecting the constitution from.

Sourced from Kenyan report.