Raila Reacts to Threats to Charge Him With Treason
National Super Alliance (NASA) leader Raila Odinga has reacted to threats by Attorney General Githu Muigai that he will be charged with high treason if he is sworn in as President on December 12th.
Last week, the AG warned the opposition leader that he could be charge with treason, which is punishable by death if he makes true his threat to be sworn in as people's president.
"I reiterate the any attempts to swear in any person as president other than the one elected in line with the constitution and in a manner provided for in the law is unlawful, illegal null and void ab initio," Prof Muigai told journalists at the State Law office in the capital Nairobi.
However, speaking during an interview with the Standard, Odinga termed Attorney General's statement as unfortunate and irresponsible.
“The statement by my neighbour and former tenant was unfortunate and irresponsible,” he said.
He added: “He misses the point completely. This is blackmail and intimidation. He should know I have been charged with treason before, spent six months in Kamiti and the state entered a nolle prosequi because they couldn’t prove the charges. He should not touch that button."
The opposition chief lamented that the Jubilee administration was eroding the gains Kenya has made since independence, citing killing of innocent and unarmed citizens by police.
“I am afraid that we are living at a time when the powers that be think that might is right. We are moving backwards as a nation and the gains we made are slowly but surely being eroded. Drafters of the Constitution envisaged an independent Inspector General of Police but unfortunately MPs amended the law to give the President powers to appoint top police command. Now on orders from above they kill innocent Kenyans,” he says, citing recent killings of demonstrators blamed on the police.
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"my neighbour and former…
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"my neighbour and former TENANT", woo! getting personal here. For what? Just because you are now a cornered bastard?
The followers of the…
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In reply to "my neighbour and former… by Che Guevara (not verified)
The followers of the cornered bastard should learn that while they go throwing stones all day and go home empty handed, raila has income flowing in from his houses and stolen molasses company. Nani mjinga?
The law is an ass beleive me…
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The law is an ass beleive me NASA and the people`s assembly will find a way.Do not think a mere AG scares us.He needs to prespare his charge sheet the swearing in was postponed not cancelled bado watu wa NASA hawajatosheka kwa hivyo wacha furaha.
@ Che Guevara,yes this lad…
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@ Che Guevara,yes this lad is a cornered and a bitter bastard.He has promised to take some blind Kenyans to Canaan but right now he does not know what to do because he is doomed to political siberia and oblivion.This lad has all his priorities wrong.
He is the lord of poverty,political conmanship,murderer,liar and incitement and he should be sworn in by Orengo as just that.
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The actual drummers of the swearing-in debauchery were acting in bad faith, just like folks in my nondescript town center. In my view the folks liked to instigate fights and invested on the vice. Hardly any of the residents engaged in actual fist fights-strangers did. Three groups of strangers came to drink in my center, one group was elites from an nearby training institute, another was ministry of works employees, the third was wealthy farmers from a distant mountainside farms. My folks did not have the currency to intervene in such "rich men" fights but they cherished it for its spoils. These drunken fights were fortunately not fatal but could run for 2-3 hours before the police came. The presence of cops ended the shows and the drunks would be ordered to leave the center. To my surprise these shows of might had no consequences because a month later residents would be treated to another rerun. Unfortunately, even as my seniors poetically talked about these shows, there was moral decadence and corruption going on in the community's fabric. These drinking crusaders as they soiled their royal robes in my village, they sowed their royal wild oats too and its has ever since been impossible to tell the wheat from the wild oats. Moral of the story: don't shabikia some of these grandstanding stunts and machoism by our politicians for it may come back to bite us the wananchi.
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