Miguna Miguna Pokes Holes in Presidential Candidate Wajackoyah's Bid to Legalize Marijuana

Kenyan-Canadian attorney Miguna Miguna has dismissed Roots Party presidential candidate Prof. George Wajackoyah’s pledge to legalize marijuana and introduce snake farming as a way of revamping the economy and paying the country’s huge debt.

Miguna termed Wajackoyah’s proposals as unrealistic, adding that most countries that have legalized marijuana have not prioritized it as their main source of economic growth.

"Campaigning on silliness about marijuana, snake farming and other silly pursuits constitute cowardice. Kenya's problems do not require doing anything crazy or stupid. It only requires fearlessness, vision and transformative agenda," Miguna wrote on Twitter.

"Marijuana has been legalized in many countries including Canada, some states in the US and a number of EU countries. But that has not made marijuana the leading economic earner. To suggest that legalizing marijuana will mythically solve all Kenya's problems is to be unhinged."

Miguna opined that seizing stolen wealth and land is the surest way Kenya can recover economically and eliminate debt.

"If all Kenyans want is to introduce substances or things that can earn us money to pay foreign debt, here is the magic bullet. This will eliminate all debt. Seize all the stolen land and wealt," he added.

The firebrand lawyer further tore into Wajackoyah's proposal to suspend the constitution if elected the fifth president of Kenya. "You don't fix Kenya by subverting the Constitution that the people gave themselves in 2010. Using, reason, logic and vision are the solutions," said Miguna.