CORD says Government pushing Kenya into leadership anarchy

By MOSES NJAGIH

CORD legislators have accused Jubilee of plunging the country into a leadership crisis, saying President Uhuru Kenyatta is culpable for key failures.

The opposition lawmakers, comprising both Senators and MPs, said the Uhuru administration has failed Kenyans, citing the manner in which the Government is handling security, the payment of Anglo Leasing type contracts and alleged frosty diplomatic relations with the West.

At a press conference at Kenyatta International Convention Centre yesterday, the leaders said there were systematic failures under the Jubilee Government, which they said had disillusioned Kenyans.

“The centre cannot hold and the ship of State is bursting at its seams. The sea is too big for the President to swim and he must not drown with the nation,” said the legislators, as they announced plans to hold rallies across the country to “provide the nation with a message of hope”.

“Amidst the blunders, the transgressions and systemic failures, the Jubilee regime has placed the country in a political trajectory of disaster and economic pain and social injustice,” they said in a speech read by nominated Senator Agnes Zani.

Those who addressed the Press included Senate Majority Leader Moses Wetangula (Ford-K), Minority chief whip Johnstone Muthama, Kisumu Senator Anyang’ Nyong’o, Boni Khalwale (Kakamega), Zani (Nominated) and Elizabeth Ongoro (Nominated).

They accused the Government of duping Kenyans to believe that paying Anglo leasing related contracts would clear the country to float the euro bond, terming the reason as “a defeating fallacy”.

no guarantee

 Nyong’o said paying for the Anglo Leasing contracts is no guarantee that the Europeans will invest their money when the bond is floated.

“Europeans have expressed their lack of confidence with this Government and that is why they are asking their citizens to leave. They have no confidence in this economy. How will they invest their money where they have no confidence? Asked Nyong’o.

He said the Government is increasingly getting isolated and is bankrupt. Khalwale said using the floating of the soevereign bond as an excuse to pay Anglo Leasing related contracts was meant to hoodwink Kenyans that the Government had their best interests at heart.

“The sovereign bond is only worth Sh135 billion, yet the budget deficit is over Sh300 billion. Where will they get the difference?” he claimed.

The legislators warned Treasury officials making payments that they would be held personally liable for their mistakes. The lawmakers further criticised the President’s move to formally re-designate the defunct Provincial Administration as national Government administration officers, saying sending them to the counties with more powers was meant to frustrate devolution.

They claimed that there was a systematic and widespread pattern to frustrate county Governments in every way including underfunding them by using out dated audited financial accounts instead of those of a previous year.