National Super Alliance (NASA) leaders on Wednesday attacked President Uhuru Kenyatta after he threatened chiefs supporting the opposition in Makueni.
NASA Presidential candidate Raila Odinga in a statement noted President Kenyatta's threats were a calculated move to intimidate civil servants to forgo their right to vote for leaders of their choice and force them to support Jubilee.
"We wish to remind the President that there is no such thing as Jubilee government money. There is only public money or taxpayers’ money.
"These threats to chiefs and public servants are further evidence that the President can no longer differentiate his private and public persona. Uhuru is telling Kenyans that he is the government and the government is him," Odinga stated.
The Opposition leader noted that the President should first sort out his house before attacking chiefs.
"As the president was threatening the Chiefs, Cabinet Secretaries and other senior public servants have been mobilized to campaign for Jubilee in a manner last seen during the KANU single party era," he noted.
The NASA Leader appealed to the public servants to act in the best interest of the country and its people without fear or favour.
"Politicians come and go, the public service and the country remain. We recognize that the public service has clearly spelt out performance benchmarks against which its officers are judged. Supporting Jubilee and President Uhuru is not one of those benchmarks," he mentioned.
Mr Odinga noted that NASA would stand with and fight for any public servant who gets victimized on the illegal grounds that they did not support Jubilee and President Kenyatta. He added that the country was ruled by law and not by "whims of autocrats living within the past".
"Unfortunately, it is at the grassroots where Jubilee failures are most visible and felt. Chiefs feel and see firsthand the impact of the rising cost of living, absence of basic commodities like unga, rising insecurity and the lack of jobs that people live with daily. As the face of the government, the chiefs shoulder blame for failures they are not responsible for. And now they are being accused of not doing enough for Jubilee.
"We appeal to the chiefs to hold fort and assure them that in a few days, things will change and they will serve under a government that will give them respect and a fairer deal," Raila stated.
Wiper Party Leader Kalonzo Musyoka while addressing a rally at Suswa noted that President Kenyatta should stop threatening chiefs as he had no vote in Ukambani.
NASA Co-principal Musalia Mudavadi noted that Jubilee had been accusing NASA of planning to fire chiefs yet it was their (Jubilee) master plan from the beginning.
