Wetang’ula: NASA principals have committed no offence

Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka (L), NASA presidential candidate Raila Odinga (centre) and Bungoma senator Moses Wetang’ula at a past function. [Photo/Nathan Ochunge/Standard]

Investigating NASA presidential candidate Raila Odinga and his running mate Kalonzo Musyoka is a waste of time, Bungoma Senator Moses Wetang’ula has said.

Wetang’ula said the NASA principals have committed no offence to warrant ingestions.

Wetang’ula was reacting to a directive by the Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko to Director of Criminal Investigation Ndegwa Muhoro to investigate the duo for saying there would be no elections on October 26.

“What Raila and Kalonzo have said is that they are not ready to go back to the elections if the field is still too bumpy, is that a crime?” he posed.

Speaking in Murende, Matayos constituency when he visited the family of late former Ford Kenya Youth leader Gaylord Okinda, Wetang’ula insisted the position by NASA that elections would not be conducted still stands unless the level playground is guaranteed.

“The irreducible minimum demands we gave to the electoral commission have not been met because we know what transpired during the August elections and that is what we are trying to fix through the demands we gave IEBC,” he said.

Wetang’ula asked Tobiko not to give in to pressure from Jubilee to issue orders of probe against the opposition leaders noting that the DPP is protected by the constitution.

The Bungoma senator said politicians from Western who have decamped to Jubilee will not add any value to the re-lection bid of President Uhuru Kenyatta.

“We have given them to President Kenyatta for free and he (Uhuru) should know that they came with their stomachs but not with any voter,” said Wetang’ula.