It is Wetangula’s right to be president-Musalia
Amani National Congress (ANC) party leader Musalia Mudavadi has supported the presidential launch of Ford Kenya party leader Moses Wetangula that was held at Kakamega’s Muliro Gardens saying it was his constitutional right to launch his presidential bid as the next president.
Speaking at Kitale, the party chief said that Wetangula’s move to launch his presidential bid as the next president of this republic was welcome but doubted his presidential bid on what he termed as having more hurdles ahead following what he termed as strict competition in the CORD party.
He said he was best suited to run for the presidency of this nation as he once contested for it during the last 2013 elections and emerged third during the hotly contested elections saying he was confident of trouncing president Kenyatta in the next years General Elections through a peaceful Democratic elections.
He faulted the Government on over rampant corruption that has been an order of the day and criticized President Uhuru Kenyatta’s style of tackling the vice where by several personalities have been left untouched.
He said president Uhuru has only been giving warnings to corrupt officials within his leadership but is not bold to crack the whip on corrupt officials who are being involved in corruption practices terming the speech he made in the Parliament on the state of the nation where he attacked Governors on corruption as misplaced and only want to divert the people’s minds on corruption .
“Uhuru has failed on corruption and has been attacking Governors and lambasting the whole philosophy of devolution, he is wrong on this”, said Mudavadi.
He attacked the Government of not funding the auditor general enough resources to set up its office saying that he wants to make sure that he controls who the person he employs and he sacks yet the president is aware that constitutionally it’s that office that is mandated to do the same .
Mudavadi criticized the Government of its inability to fund the Interim Elections and Boundaries Commission I.E.B.C so that the commission carries out its functions well in terms of voter registrations.
He said that after learning on the mistakes that was committed of not giving IEBC enough funds to carry out its independent voters registration is when the Government has promised to give out some more cash to the electoral commission which he said was late.
He called upon the Government under president Uhuru Kenyatta to make sure that it funds the electoral commission with enough cash so that the commission undertakes its vigorous voter registration campaign without delays.
He however said was not happy in the manner the MPS behaved in the parliament when the head of state was about to give his speech that touched on the state of the nation, terming the action of whistle blowing and behaving in unruly manner as a disgrace to the MPS.
He said MPS have a forum to challenge the president’s speech right in their National Assembly and criticize whenever they found the president erred in his speech and the manner they behaved only tried to express the level of rot especially among certain MPS who he said don’t understand the role that their citizens took them to parliament.
He said he was once a victim where he was a finance minister and the time he prepared to read a Budget to the House, several MPS started to make noise as a way of trying to make sure that he does not read the Budget terming the manners as having erupted again which he said did not augur well to the public.