Political analyst Mutahi Ngunyi has stated that he supports National Super Alliance's (NASA) stand that foreign diplomats should steer clear of Kenyan politics.
Ngunyi, who has often bashed the opposition for their recent threats to boycott the fresh Presidential election, took to his twitter account to defend both President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga.
"For the first time, I agree with NASA. Mzungu diplomats should SHUT UP or SHIP OUT.
"Uhuru and Raila are OURS. And their FIGHT is for KENYANS!" stated Ngunyi on Wednesday.
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Earlier this week, envoys threatened to issue travel bans against politicians who sow anarchy or impede preparations for the October 26 repeat elections.
Sources within both Jubilee Party and NASA did not divulge the details of the caution or the particular countries issuing it, but said the warning was the culmination of concerted efforts by the West to get the two sides talking and arrive at a middle ground on, among other things, how the repeat elections will be managed.
According to the sources, the envoys, among them US’s Robert Godec and British Deputy High Commissioner Susie Kitchens, have been categorical that failure to hold the repeat polls as planned could plunge the country into a constitutional crisis.
Further, the diplomats are pushing the two parties to drop some of their demands and compromise, arguing that most of the requests cannot be met due to time constraints.
NASA is demanding the sacking of IEBC officials implicated in the bungling of the August elections, as well as the cancellation of tenders awarded to printer Al-Ghurair and technology company Safran Morpho.
Jubilee has, on the other hand, proposed a raft of amendments to the electoral laws in a contentious bill that seeks to reduce the powers of IEBC chairman as well as entrench the use of the manual vote transmission system, among other recommendations.
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