Raila Odinga presidential campaign secretariat spokesperson, Makau Mutua, has shamed Mathira Member of Parliament and Kenya Kwanza presidential running mate, Rigathi Gachagua, over his grasp of the bottom-up model.
Speaking during an interview on NTV Tuesday night, May 25, Mutua opined that it was embarrassing for Gachagua to preach a model that he does not understand at all.
Mutua noted that elections are not just about empty promises or models borrowed by individuals who cannot explain them to the public, challenging the Kenya Kwanza team - which was represented by Westlands parliamentary hopeful, Nelson Havi - to tell Kenyans what it has in store for them.
"This election is not about empty promises and it is not about models that have been borrowed or sort of plucked up in the air by individuals who cannot even explain them because they do not understand what they have borrowed," argued Mutua.
The Raila Odinga presidential campaign secretariat spokesperson stated that Kenya's future was on the line and the economic model in the country should be changed to accommodate every Kenyan.
"This election is about change and about the fulfilment of the promise the founders of this country charged us with; to fight disease, to fight poverty, and to fight hunger. We are now into 60 years of independence and many of those challenges are still with us. There is one candidate (referring to Raila Odinga) in this election and who has devoted his entire life to confront those challenges," Mutua stated.
"He is now leading us into the third liberation; that of the economy of empowering our people and trying to conquer those three enemies."
His sentiments were echoed by Matungulu Member of Parliament, Stephen Mule, who not only questioned Gachagua's understanding of the bottom-up model but opined that the model was not suitable to take Kenya forward.
Mule wondered how Gachagua would explain the economic model to Kenyans now that he could not explain it properly even in his own vernacular language, further arguing that such a person cannot be tasked with the responsibility of managing resources.
Their remarks come amid an interview where Gachagua was put to task to explain how the bottom-up economic model would work.
In the interview Inooro FM, Gachagua argued that it would be more economical to have many start ups rather than have a few big blue chip companies making all the country's money and paying almost all the taxes the government collects.
His remarks were picked by Kenyans who accused him of undermining the blue chip companies and as a man who was on a mission to ensure bug businesses do not thrive.
Others questioned his understanding of economics and the bottom-up model which has been adapted by his coalition.
