Busia Senator Okiya Omtatah has launched a scathing attack against President William Ruto and his allies, accusing them of trying to revive tribal narratives in Kenyan politics.
In a statement seen by TV47 Digital, Senator Omtatah says that the politicians are hellbent in maintaining the status quo in Kenya’s political landscape, where tribes and regions were falsely pitted against one another for political expediency, in the interest of the a few elites.
The lawmaker is not amused by the Kenya Kwanza administration’s insistence that recent anti-government protests organised by young Kenyans (Gen Z) are funded by foreign entities.
“It is a total insult to our gallant youth to claim that they were inspired and driven in their patriotic endeavour by foreigners. Or that the Gen-Z are in the service of one ‘dominant’ tribe or powerful scheming to capture State power,” Senator Omtatah says.
According to Senator Omtatah, the “tribeless Gen Z revolutionaries” have slayed the monster of impunity, tribalism, regionalism, mediocrity, corruption, wastefullness and general political decay that have not only defined us, but also “denied us the real promise of this great nation – the Republic of Kenya.”
“We must for posterity celebrate the fact that for the very first time, public leaders have been held accountable to our national values, irrespective of where they come from. We must celebrate the fact that there have been demonstrations in areas such as Eldoret and Nyeri, the political backyards of the President and the Deputy President, respectively.”
Going forward, Senator Omtatah envisions that those in authority must be held to account, their communities notwithstanding.
Consequently, Senator Omtatah wants police officers who killed more than 50, abducted and injured Kenyans during the “constitutionally-sanctioned peaceful” demonstrations to be brought to book.
Kenya must never go back to the sad days when political groups mobilised along ethnic lines and ostracised other ethnic groups and regions by portraying them as existential threats to their communities’ survival and well-being.
