Opposition leader Raila Odinga has refuted claims by President Uhuru Kenyatta that he fuelled the 2007/2008 post-election violence.
In a strongly-worded statement, Mr Odinga stated that President Kenyatta was desperate and using the post poll chaos as political mileage to re-energize his dwindling support base.
"We understand the desperation of the President for something to hang on to and reenergize his depressed 2013 voting bloc. We, however, advise the President to look around his entourage as he visits Kisii and also look into the mirror if he is interested in the truth on the 2007/2008 violence," Odinga's statement read in part.
He pointed out that Uhuru's claims were ironical, considering that the counties of Kisii and Nyamira where the President was visiting were littered with post-election violence victims who were yet to be compensated by his government.
Raila blasted the president for lecturing the people of Gusii on who initiated the infrastructural transformation in their county and wondered whether the victims of the poll chaos in the region believed the narrative Uhuru was propagating that he stoked the flames of violence in 2007/08.
"The Gusii people need no lecture on who initiated the infrastructural transformation in their county. Neither do they need to be told who the high priest of corruption in the country is. They are only too aware," the Opposition leader noted.
He added: "The President needs to look no further than the empire his family and associates assembled corruptly using public resources, if he is keen to understand why Kenya stagnated while the Republic of Korea moved forward. In the ill-acquired wealth of the family and associates lies Kenya’s lost years".
President Kenyatta had earlier today claimed that the Opposition chief played a central role in the chaos that led to the death of more than 1000 people and displacement of hundreds of thousands.
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