Richard Onyonka, MP, Kitutu Chache South, in an interview with CITIZEN TV, stated that we do have a problem with our political DNA.
He said that the essence of our political engagement is distorted because the problem with Kenya is that every two years, we always have campaigns starting.
“How I wished when we were having this BBI thing, I wished this issue had been put there,’ he said.
“We must begin to look at our country from the point of view that we actually able as a country to have leadership that is going to guide Kenyans purposely for economic growth and development.
“Or are we constantly and continuously engaged in political grandstanding and political thinking?
“Which then means that instead of us talking about economic policy, instead of us coming up with economic strategies, which are meant to improve the livelihoods of Kenyans, what you actually have is that every single election passes, the cycle is complete, two years later, people are beginning to campaign,
“And this actually for me is what happened with President Uhuru and William Ruto.
“The fact that I remember there was a time when Uhuru actually constantly kept on saying, can you people slow down.
“What is this thing that you started campaigns? You are running all over the place.
“We have an agenda of coming out and telling Kenyans, what we actually need, let us do the stadiums, let us make sure that our towns, our cities are running effectively, let us make sure that our health facilities are functional.
“To me, what Uhuru has been doing, is what any politician would do.
“If today I found that the people who are fortunately, the people who oppose me who have opposed to be in my last elections, one year, two years down, the line are, when I go to a function and for example, we are going for fundraising for a church, or we are going to do a function, where we are holding sports activities in my constituency or we are going to have a public hearing or something.
‘And all they are busy telling me is that one of them is saying, Mheshimiwa unajua, we want to get rid of you.
“In fact, you, we don’t need you now. What we need now is to move forward and moving forward means, you don’t need to be there.
“To me, first for self survival, Uhuru just decided to pick Raila.
“And you see one of the things that we constantly forget particularly when we are emotional about these politics of ours, the truth is look at the votes.
“Look at the numbers of what has been there. Looking at the Raila coalition, which was the last coalition and you look at what the Jubilee coalition was, those votes were nearly as equal as you could count them.
“So, when Uhuru came in and decided to bring Raila so that we could then have the handshake and agree to work together, many people of Goodwill in this country felt, and this thing has been discussed elsewhere.
“You have people saying, Kenya is most probably, the only country where a sitting president and the person who was opposing viciously, I’ve agreed to come together and “work together”.
“So to me, the president, choosing to change the cabinet, the the kitchen cabinet or not, it’s not really a big deal.
“Well, for me, the big deal is Raila joined Uhuru for the last four years, the country has actually been reasonably peaceful.
“I don’t think Raila went there because he’s a priest, going to ask people to be saved.
“If I was even was Uhuru’s critic, and I was Uhuru’s opponent during a presidential election, and he gave me an opportunity to talk with him and be friends with him, obviously, when our friendship moves, the political side I’d be telling him, boss, this thing is if you are finishing your term, leave it for me,” he said.
