Raila said he will not tolerate those who have stolen public funds adding that such people belong to Kamiti Maximum Prison.
“Raia wanalala njaa na wengine wananyakua mali ya serikali,” he told a mammoth rally in Dandora’s Tom Mboya grounds yesterday.The Prime Minister said he is the man to beat in the presidential. He said his government will focus on jobs.
“ODM wanted to expand the countries infrastructure in 2007. Our slogan then was Infrastructure Infrastructure Infrastructure, but next year after we take over the government that was stolen from us, it will be jobs jobs jobs for the youth.
“My presidency will create thousands of jobs for youths who constitute more than half of the population and give them grants that will be non-refundable to help them start small businesses."
He said the Youth Enterprise Development Fund will be reformed to ensure that it reaches as many youths as possible.
The PM said The National Alliance party is the same old PNU
“They are the same PNU guys who are now re-grouping to some amorphous group called TNA whom I will all defeat come next March,” Raila said.
Starehe MP Margeret Wanjiru who has been rumoured to have decamped to Uhuru Kenyatta’s TNA made a triumphant entry while Raila was addressing the crowd, maintaining that she was in ODM to stay.
“There have been allegations that I want to get a direct nomination for to vie for the governor’s seat. Let me state that I will be in the race and my opponents here should expect dust in the nominations, am not afraid. I do not subscribe to tribal groupings, I preach to adverse tribes in the many crusades that I attend,” she said, pointing at her opponents in the race Philip Kisia and Evans Kidero who were seated in the dais.
Nairobi Mayor, in a thinly veiled attack on Wanjiru, told the crowd that the party should not entertain members who want to hold Raila at ransom if their demands are not met.
The rally was attended by cabinet ministers Henry Kosgey, Fred Gumo, Oburu Odinga, Ababu Namwamba, Elizabeth Ongoro, Manson Nyamweya and a horde of ODM aspirants in Nairobi.
Narc Kenya's Brian Weke, who was set to defect to ODM failed to turn up, but Ongoro assured the crowd that he is set to join the party among other defectors.
SOURCE: http://www.the-star.co.ke
