The Government has warned against the renewed nationwide anti-IEBC demos planned by the National Super Alliance (NASA).
Through Spokesman Eric Kiraithe, the government issued a warning against the protests announced by Opposition Chief Raila Odinga.
Speaking during a press briefing, Kiraithe questioned the real intention of the Alliance and wondered how challenges facing young people in Kenya could be solved through protests.
“Our achievements in terms of infrastructure and foreign investments in the last five years is evidence that we can achieve the status of a medium income fast-growing economy even before 2030 if we remain focused,” he said.
He acknowledged that the growth Kenya has continued to experience emerge from sweat and hard work of the ordinary Kenyans who are doing their part in nation-building.
“We are talking about peasant farmers in our villages, mama mbogas in Marikiti who ensures your daily supply of fresh vegetables from Kisii, Rift Valley, and the much-maligned matatu drivers and their touts,” he added.
He also lamented that the country’s growth could have been much better were it not for the 2007/2008 post-election violence that interrupted the macroeconomic growth of the country and also discouraged foreign investors.
Kiraithe further warned that unrelenting retrogressive political chatter would prove disastrous for this country.
“Our weakness as a country has been undue attention to selfish political ambition which has periodically created uncertainty in our investment climate,” he noted.
He took a swipe at the NASA leader whom he accused of targeting patriotic corporate citizens following his sustained attacks against Safaricom.
Odinga had accused the company of colluding with OT-Morpho, a French-based company that provided results transmission infrastructure, to rig elections in favour of the Jubilee Party candidate.
“The allegations that Safaricom was used to rig the August 8 presidential poll is most unfortunate not only because it is false in every material respect, but also known to be false by the makers.
“Those people who purport to speak for the people of Kenya ought to know that Kenya won’t develop on empty rhetoric. The citizens of this country won’t get affordable quality health care, education or even eat unbridled political ambition,” Kiraithe concluded.
