Former Starehe MP, Maina Kamanda, is among 500 Kikuyu elders who went to Bondo, Siaya County, to endorse former Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s official presidential bid in 2022.
In an interview with one of the local papers, Kamanda said the Kikuyu community is prepared for a Raila administration “like never before”
Kamanda said Raila’s dad Jaramogi, was exceptionally loyal to late Mzee Jomo Kenyatta until the youthful Turk’s insurgency disputed his succession plan.
“The divisions are now behind us. As a community, we are ready for Raila’s candidature as a good gesture for the support his father gave our son Jomo before and after Independence,” Kamanda said.
Kamanda’s sentiments were additionally reverberated by National Assembly Majority Whip Maoka Maore, who said Raila has an impeccable development and anti-graft record that can protect President Uhuru Kenyatta’s legacy projects after he retires.
“Raila has never killed anyone or stolen from anyone. I don’t understand where the bitterness of ‘don’t sell Raila to us’ comes from,” he said.
“Raila has never killed anybody or taken from anybody. I’m not sure where the sharpness of ‘don’t offer Raila to us’ comes from,” he said.
Maore said the President’s backyard will predominantly decide in favor of Raila if he vies because “he is the right man to succeed Uhuru”.
