Monday, December 30, 2024 - Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga has dismissed allegations suggesting that he was among the beneficiaries of the Gen Z protests that swept across the country in June and July
Speaking on Friday, Raila
termed the allegations as useless and that they are made up by the media.
“I am not a beneficiary of the
Gen Z protests. These have been useless allegations made in the media. I've not
benefited,” he told Citizen TV
He explained that President William Ruto wanted to form a broad-based government after he dissolved his cabinet and requested individuals from the opposition party, Azimio
Raila said he consulted his
Azimio coalition partners, and while some people agreed to the idea, others
refused, and that is when his party, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM),
decided to second some of its members.
He further explained that no
negotiations for a coalition were made and that members of the ODM in Cabinet
were given the jobs on merit.
He insisted that while they
relinquished the positions they held in the party hierarchy, they remain
members of ODM to date.
“What happened is that President
Ruto said he wanted to involve a larger society in governance and asked if we
could give him people from our party, and I consulted other colleagues in the
Azimio coalition, and some were ready and some were not, and then we basically
seconded some of our people to the government to work, but it was not like
forming a pact.
“It was not a coalition because we did not sit down and negotiate.
"These people were just hired on their merit
and had to relinquish their positions in the party but remain members of the
party,” Raila said.
The Kenyan DAILY POST
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