Speaking on Tuesday, July 13, Edwin Sifuna who is the ODM secretary said that even the NASA coalition partners don’t want to be together and it is the constitutional mandate of the President to unify the country.
"You can tell it is not anyone of us in Nasa asking the President to put us together. You can tell that we don’t want to be together, we have not invited him into our fight."
"The President has a constitutional duty to foster national unity amongst national leaders this is part of the broader motivation of him to taking the handshake," he however further stated.
These remarks were made during a live interview on Citizen TV. During the same interview, Kakamega Senator Cleophas Malala who is affiliated to the Amani National Congress (ANC) party also insisted that NASA is dead.
He added that the coalition's death was brought about by the Raila Odinga-led Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party.
"Our term limit for NASA agreement was 2017-2022. We have collapsed because of mistrust, political unfaithfulness and political disloyalties orchestrated by ODM," Malala said.
During a phone interview with Kenyans.co.ke, Malala stated the grievances ANC had with the NASA coalition. He said the ODM leader had decided to take all the gains that had been accrued from the handshake, which went against the spirit of the coalition which was sharing whatever gains were accrued.
He added that in their agreement, under section 13 (2b), it was clearly indicated that the money coming from the Political Parties Fund would be shared equally, but ODM had decided to grab the entire package, refusing to disburse anything to the other partners.
“We have seen the President launch mega projects with Raila in Nyanza region leaving out regions like Western which has not seen any of those projects since 2013. We feel betrayed by Raila and we are saying that we will stop lamenting and now focus on a way forward,” concluded Malala.
This comes a few days after Deputy President William Ruto asked opposition principals to stop bothering the head of state with their disunity.
"The President was not elected to work for five or six people. The President works for the 47 million Kenyans, not opposition leaders who cannot agree on anything," he said.
The DP said opposition leaders have been pushing the President to lead efforts to amend the Constitution to have a system of governance that would accommodate all of them.
"Now that the plan seems to have hit a dead end, they want the President to bring them together. One of them says he still has bullets, another one says he cannot work with a certain person while the other says he wants money from the Political Parties Fund," Ruto said.
