National Super Alliance (NASA) strategist David Ndii has announced that they have decided to suspend the People's Assembly process.
Addressing a press conference alongside other members of the People's Assembly Steering Commmittee, Ndii explained that they had decided to suspend the process to allow for talks between President Uhuru Kenyatta and oposition leader Raila Odinga.
Ndii, however, maintained that the dialogue must be honest and with the interests of the people at heart.
"We have been assured that this initiative will be about the people, will involve the people and will be validated and owned by the people. But we are alive to the painful history of political betrayal," he stated.
"Every Kenyan should come out and hold these leaders accountable, You didn't see any of us at Harambee House," ODM Executive Director Oduor Ong'wen noted.
Ong'wen explained that the 2 leaders had a unique opportunity to honestly commit to solving long-standing issues that NASA had vowed to address through the People's Assembly.
[caption caption="David Ndii addressing the media on March 12, 2018"]
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Ndii noted that the pact between President Kenyatta and Odinga was not a NASA-Jubilee deal or about the 2022 election, but rather, a personal decision by the 2 leaders who did not want to be remembered like other leaders who missed the opportunity to unite the country.
He affirmed that the People's Assembly team supported the deal "100 Percent".
Ndii hailed the duo for being the first top-level leaders in Kenya's history to acknowledge that tribalism was the country's biggest problem.
"The truth is our politics is patently tribal. We must therefore acknowledge, commend and congratulate the two leaders for this meeting of minds," he stated.
Explaining that admitting a problem was the first step in solving it, Ndii also cautioned the leaders that the talks had to be honest, truthful and courageous.
He further stated that tribalism was not an end to itself, but rather, had been used to acquire political power for unjust enrichment and to skew allocation of public resources to favor some communities so that the members of those communities would protect greedy leaders.
[caption caption="President Uhuru Kenyatta with NASA leader Raila Odinga"]
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