MP Moses Kuria Announces He Will for the Presidency in 2022

Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria has announced he will run for the presidency in 2022. Kuria says he will seek the country's top seat on a platform of service for all Kenyans regardless of their ethnic or social backgrounds.

“I will support myself for the Presidency,” Kuria said in an interview with Capital FM on Monday morning.

The Jubilee MP says his decision to run for the presidency is informed by his determination to solve problems dogging Kenya such as tribalism and corruption.

“First of all, I have never talked badly about religion or tribe but the problem with the people I speak against, is that they describe me as a tribalist, thief, corrupt,” he says.

“I think their symbol needs to be a brush. When you join them, they paint you white when you leave them they paint you black. I am not a tribalist.”

He further notes that most of the challenges facing Kenyans have nothing to do with ethnicity or social status.

“Campaign for me. My symbol will be a spanner. I just want to speak my mind. If I have opposed you and you are from another tribe it is not because you are from a different area,” he remarks.

“If even if you look at the issues affecting this nation like those of the youth unemployment, use of SME, they do not know tribe. The same hunger that is biting people in Gatundu is the same one that is biting someone else in Mombasa, Kisumu or wherever there is,” he adds.

He expresses confidence that he will clinch the seat. “Three years after I went to parliament, and when we went for the elections on August 8. I had six opponents against me and I won by 93 percent. I know my stuff and I do not believe in losing. I am very poor at that."

On his relationship with opposition leader Raila Odinga, the MP says they are good friends and has even worked for the ODM chief in the past.

“Raila is my great buddy. I like the guy and I think the Right Honorable likes me as well. You only need to be where we both are, and you will have the time of your life. Not all the time we agree but there are times we have agreed in the past,” he notes.

“It will shock you that at 1997, I was a 26-yr- old and Raila was going for the Presidency for the first time. And he wanted to know particularly how the Mt Kenya region would vote and if they would support him. He commissioned two young men to give him advice and I was one of them," Kuria adds.