A day after CORD leader Raila Odinga issued a state of the nation address, the Presidential Strategic Communications Unit (PSCU) hit Odinga with a comeback letter, strongly criticizing him and the Opposition .
In the statement by PSCU directors, the former Prime Minister and CORD leadership is accused of involvement in corruption deals with the letter citing past controversies where Odinga's name featured.
“The entire CORD leadership is hobbled by corruption of the past and kleptomaniac fantasies. Led by Odinga, Musyoka and Wetang'ula, they are projecting their venal proclivities and penchant for abuse of office on the Jubilee leadership.”
“As Prime Minister, Odinga orchestrated the Maize Scandal, whereby his office coerced the National Cereals and Produce Board to sell grain reserves meant for famine relief to Odinga's family, friends, political and business associates at low prices to make a killing in the free market when Kenyans stared starvation in the face,” the statement read in part.
President Uhuru Kenyatta's communications team further blamed Odinga for the 2007/2008 post-election violence highlighting: “It will be remembered that the post-election violence was instigated under a "No Raila, No Peace" principle which enabled Odinga to walk over the dead and injured into the high office of Prime Minister. Peace only came to the country when Odinga was designated Prime Minister.”
PSCU went a step further to bash the Orange Democratic Party (ODM) for being 'a closed, parochial, tribal, violent, repressive cult of personality overhung with the menacing spectre of wanton chaos' a remark attributed by the party's recent chaotic grassroots elections.
Odinga was also blasted over the Euro Bond saga and his day-to-day demands on the government to make public the projects funded by the money.
"His hysterical obsession with the Euro Bond, and persistent demand for Euro Bond financed projects to be made public, is a desperate bid to see if even one of his inflated kickback rackets made it to execution as a government project," the letter read.
