DETAILS OF GACHAGUA’S LATE NIGHT MEETING ABOUT RAILA LEAKS

Azimio leader Raila Odinga on Thursday, March 23, accused Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua of engineering a secret meeting at his residence in Karen aimed at disrupting planned protests by the opposition

In an address to the press, Raila claimed that the meeting was attended by National Assembly Majority Leader Kimani Ichung’wah and Kiharu Member of Parliament Ndindi Nyoro.

According to Raila, Gachagua invited several youths to the meeting and instructed them to counter-demonstrators during the upcoming Monday protests.

Raila further claimed that the youth would be given uniforms similar to those won by his supporters under the Movement for the Defence of Democracy (MDD) banner enabling them to seamlessly joined the movement without being detected.

“We have very authentic information that on Tuesday evening, Mr Rigathi Gachagua convened a meeting at his residence in Karen and in attendance were Kimani Ichungwah and Ndindi Nyoro. They invited youth from different parts of the country to that meeting.

“That meeting turned out to be a strategy session to plan to counter the demonstrators on Monday. The plan, according to the information we have, is that these youth are going to be given uniforms similar to those of the MDD, our movement. Then they will mix with our youth and accompany them throughout the demonstrations,” stated the former Prime Minister.

Raila further detailed that the youth had been instructed to Kill over 1000 people during the protests a move to give a reason for the trial of the arrested Azimio members of Parliament to the International Criminal Court(ICC).

“They will shoot, stone, knife and aim is to kill over 1000 people and then they are going to make a case that there is a blood bath and they will try to send those who are leaders of Azimio to ICC,” added Raila.

The Azimio leader maintained that the movement intended to participate in a peaceful protest adding that plans by the deputy president to cause chaos would fail.

“We want to condemn in the strongest terms protests this criminal plan by these people to try and cause bloodshed in our country.

“We have said that we are a peaceful movement and we don’t want any bloodshed,” stated Raila.

At the same time, Raila condemned the appointment of Chief Administrative Secretaries (CASs) without vetting stating that it was a move that went against democracy.

Addressing the passing of the Privatisation Bill that allows the government to sell non-performing parastatals without going through Parliament by the cabinet, Raila called on the Members of parliament to oppose the move adding that it would be a loophole for the president to give away Public property.

“We call on our members of parliament to stand firmly to this illegality of giving away public property. We in Azimio will not and cannot allow Ruto to take us to the dark days of yesterday,” he stated.

Source: Kenyans