RAILA HOLDS SIFUNA BACK

Former Prime Minister and ODM leader Raila Odinga has urged his Secretary General Edwin Sifuna, to take it slow on the ODM members who have reaped from being appointed to office by President Ruto , under the rights of a broad-based alliance

During the burial of late Kasipul MP Charles Were in Oyugis, Homa Bay County, on Friday, 9, May, Raila acknowledged the rights Sifuna enjoys as the ODM spokesperson, but restrained him from being so intense on criticizing Ruto's administration.

"The spokesman of the party is the Secretary General. When Sifuna speaks, he speaks on behalf of the party but then sazingine apana kuwa chungu sana," Odinga stated.

The former premier further highlighted the conditions that they had agreed upon while joining Kenya Kwanza, they were ratified upon signing the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).

"We have an arrangement with Kenya Kwanza and put it in black and white, a 10-point agenda and want it to be fully implemented," he said.

This just comes moments after the CS for Treasury, John Mbadi , who was also in attendance, asked Sifuna to rally behind him ,alongside the other appointed leaders, for the betterment of Kenya.

"I am the longest-serving ODM chairman and the reason I'm placing a lot of effort into transforming this economy is because I found it in bad shape," Mbadi stated his role in economic transformation.

Mbadi also used the platform to enhance his desire in showing the Nation how a caricature of Raila's presidency would have looked like.
"Another reason is I wanted to demonstrate to Kenyans that if Raila had become president, these are the people he would have gone with to government, and this is what they would have done."

He didn't hold back his heart in urging their SG to support him, since he is still part of ODM ,despite being appointed into Ruto's administration.

"If I am there, I expect total support from the part, starting with the Secretary General. My brother Sifuna, I am a member of your party and I don't belong to any other. If I fail, there's no way you can convince anyone in 2027 that ODM can run a government."

This meet up was a culmination of a scuffle between the duo after Mbadi failed to appear before the Senate, for an accountability audit.

“For as long as I remain the senator of Nairobi, and the oath that I took on the first day that I came to this house, there is not going to be a minister that we are going to protect or babysit," Sifuna stated his stand in ensuring accountable leadership on 7, May.

The Nairobi Senator further expressed his unequivocal stand regardless the political affiliation of any leader under questioning.
"It doesn’t matter whether they come from ODM or wherever. They are there to serve the public, " he enhanced.