ODM Director Lashes Out at Alice Wahome In Defence of Uhuru

Orange Democratic Movement Director of Communications Philip Etale, on Thursday, January 2, broke his silence after Kandara MP Alice Wahome went on the offence against President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga.

The lawmaker claimed that Uhuru was solely responsible for the unenviable state of the Kenyan economy.

She further claimed that the former prime minister was his new machinery for hire and their joint report, the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI), was their special purpose vehicle.

Taking to social media, the ODM boss unearthed the legislator's past action in which he claimed that she frogmarched an Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) returning officer after their difference over results.

He further took issue with her pronunciation claiming that she did not pronounce the former prime minister's name correctly.

"Alice Wahome, is she the shameless woman who frogmarched an IEBC returning officer because he couldn’t speak her language.

"FYI (for your information) Alice, my boss is called Raila not that thing Laira you keep calling him every day you open your mouth," stated Etale.

In 2017, during the general elections, Wahome made headlines after she got summoned for harassing an IEBC official, Martin Malonza, allegedly over presidential poll results.

A video emerged at the time of a disagreement between the MP and the IEBC head over changes to form 34B for the constituency.

"I was ten minutes away from the centre and my agents called me alerting me that Malonza had refused them to sign and I called the RO to alert him to wait for me but he did not pick (the call), so I asked my agents to delay so I could arrive," Wahome defended herself at the time.

In her latest outburst, the MP went ahead to advise the president to categorically renounce assertions that he was interested in remaining in power beyond 2022.

"The assumption that the president should continue ruling after his term because he is young is an abuse to the intelligence of the people of Kenya.

"The president should respond to some of those making the claims because they are coming from people who are closely related to him," she added.

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