Baken Khuleidy Hon RAILA ODINGA during an interview with Sunday Standard is asked two questions by the journalist and the guy gives a very brilliant answer. Listen to the question and the answer; QUESTION: A section of Jubilee leaders are claiming that you were in the US on a mission to set the ground to destabilise the government. Your response? RAILA: That claim by Jubilee is the best statement on the smallness of our politics, the shallowness of what passes for intelligence brief in our country, the confusion and uncertainty the country is wallowing in and how determined the regime is to take Kenya to the past. It has a scary semblance to what used to happen in the 1980s when only a few were seen to mean well for the country while others were supposed to be agents of foreign masters working to destabilise the country. That was the time when those expressing divergent opinion were labelled wasiotosheka, wanaojitakia makuu and waliopoteza mwelekeo. We may be heading back there. The programme I attended is publicly acknowledged and recognised by the US government as part of Boston University. What it entails is not a secret. It is even on their website. Who else was on the programme and who has attended it in the past is also in public domain. What I did, including giving lectures in Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Morehouse, Elizabeth City and Massachusetts universities were also in the open. Those respected institutions are not for clandestine activities. It is really a pity that our politics is sinking this low, but I am not surprised. I was there with former Prime Minister of Tanzania Hon Sumaye. He has not been accused of anything back home. Instead their embassy in Washington welcomed him as their country’s ambassador. Sometimes, one can only pity our country.
Posted on: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 04:07:39 +0000
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